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"The book is witty, sad, incisive, and totally clean of sociological cant or the pomposities of a certain kind of generalizing journalism. . . . It has the resonance of a good novel." —Dan Wakefield
"Sara Davidson is the liveliest historian of her generation."—Malcolm Cowley
"Sara Davidson is an expert witness. . . . Now, more than 10 years after leaving Berkeley, she has followed up on some of her friends, and presents an absorbing and carefully detailed account of their lives up until now, especially her own life and that of two others, Tasha and Susie. Every bit of it fascinating."—Diane Johnson
Sommario
Prologue
I. California Girls (1943-1963)
II. Blowing in the Wind (1963-1965)
III. Dawning of the Age (1965-1967)
IV. Fighting in the Street (1968-1969)
V. Busy Being Free (1969-1971)
VI. The Day the Music Died (1971-1973)
VII. Winterlude (1973-1976)
Info autore
Sara Davidson's articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly and Rolling Stone. She is the author of Real Property (1980), Friends of the Opposite Sex (1984) and Rock Hudson: His Story (1986). She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Riassunto
An account of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the 60s. It chronicles the hopes, confusion and disillusionment of a generation whose rites of passage defined one of the most contentious decades of this century.
