Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Informationen zum Autor Robert Stone is the acclaimed author of seven novels, including A Hall of Mirrors (winner of the National Book Award), A Flag for Sunrise , Children of Light , Outerbridge Reach , Damascus Gate , and Bay of Souls . His short-story collection, Bear and His Daughter , was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Stone lives with his wife in New York City. Zusammenfassung A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade, in the words of the man who experienced it all... 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, fascinating glory. An account framed by two wars, it begins with Robert Stone's last year in the Navy, when he took part in an Antarctic expedition navigating the globe, and ends in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent in the days following the invasion of Laos. Told in scintillating detail, Prime Green zips from coast to coast, from days spent in the raucous offices of Manhattan tabloids to the breathtaking beaches of Mexico, and merry times aboard the bus with Kesey and the Pranksters. Building on personal vignettes from Stone's travels across America, this powerful memoir offers the legendary novelist's inside perspective on a time many understand only peripherally. These accounts of the 1960s are riveting not only because Stone is a master storyteller but because he was there, in the thick of it, through all the wild times. From these incredible experiences, Prime Green forges a moving and adventurous portrait of a unique moment in American history.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Stone
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2007
• EAN: 9780060198169
• ISBN: 978-0-06-019816-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, COMPOSITION & WRITING: MEMOIR & BIOGRAPHY, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Letters, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Black Studies (Global), MUSIC: Essays, HISTORY: Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM: Shakespeare, LITERARY CRITICISM: Short Stories, MUSIC: Reference, EDUCATION: Reference