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The sixties / Jenny Diski.

Author: Diski, Jenny.

Edition Statement:1st Picador ed.

Imprint:New York : Picador, 2009.

Description148 p. ; 19 cm.

Note:Originally published: London : Profile Books, 2009.

Note:Introduction -- 1. Consuming the Sixties -- 2. Altering Realities -- 3. Body Work -- 4. Remaking the World -- 5. Projecting the Future -- 6. Changing Our Minds -- Notes.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-137) and index.

Note:Describes the author's reminiscences about how she spent the 1960s being a political activist, sex addict, and mental patient, which she believes reflect the era's ideas about freedom and tolerance.



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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Counterculture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
Nineteen sixties -- Biography.
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1945-
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
London (England) -- History -- 1951-
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