Books : Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (P.S.)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9780060957773
ISBN: 0060957778
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 01, 2008
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Sales Rank: 488108
Studio: Harper Perennial
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From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter, to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, turbulent, and fascinating glory. Building on personal vignettes from Robert Stone's travels across America, the legendary novelist offers not only a riveting and powerful memoir but also an unforgettable inside perspective on a unique moment in American history.
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Prime Green is a tour through the experience of one of America's great writers and thinkers. Robert Stone describes his life in the years leading up to the national convulsions of the 60's, when he and his wife Janice became part of what would later be known as the "counterculture."
Stone is always the outsider- even in the counterculture he is always an observer (just as the terrifying character Danskin, in Stone's greatest novel The Dog Soldiers, remarks, "Im a student of the passing parade..."). ... Read More
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I was very much looking forward to this book as there haven't been many good ones written on the subject. I was disappointed however, that the author made it more about himself and his experiences during that time. He didn't really tie these experiences into the cultural phenomena that was happening. I was more interested in how he saw the overall picture. How has the culture shifted? What were the redeeming qualities? What went wrong? Why hasn't anything like this occurred since? I wanted a more ... Read More
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Prime Green is a drug term written by a former hippie apporpriately named Stone. Marijuana was called grass in the '60s culture. This was the age of Aquarious when Charles Mansion controlled a commune of misguided "lost" young people in Southern California by providing drugs and sex (called "free love" back then) all of which ended in several murders. It is thought that many more were killed by this group and things are in the works to locate more remains at the ranch where they hid after the Sharon Tate ... Read More
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The author writes about his life with honesty and surprising detachment and fairness, and the life is notable, and he was in many critical places for the upheaval in the 1960s - with Ken Kesey, in San Francisco, in Viet Nam.
This book was written with penetrating intellect, but comes across as disjointed and difficult to follow at times. I read it with laptop in lap to look up the arcana that seemed critical to the narrative, which often turned out to be needlessly obscure. Other times the ideas, ... Read More
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This is HIS personal history of the 60s, not the total history of the time. Not a bad read coming from that view point. If looking for some great over view of those days, this ain't it. What book would give any great insight anyways since those days can only be be viewed through personal experiences or just a listing of events. Jerry Garcia's trip was one view, the politics of the day was another road traveled. Stone has written some good novels which I enjoyed, which maded me interested as did the Kesey connection. ... Read More
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