| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “sixties”
books tagged “sixties”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
'60's Peopleby Jane SternISBN 0394570502 (0-394-57050-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: ''60's People'More editions of '60's People:
Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellionby Bruce Shlain, Martin A. LeeISBN 039462081X (0-394-62081-X)
Hardcover, Grove Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion'More editions of Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion:
America in Our Timeby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0385115725 (0-385-11572-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'America in Our Time'More editions of America in Our Time:
America in Our Time : From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Whyby Godfrey HodgsonISBN 0394725174 (0-394-72517-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'America in Our Time : From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why'More editions of America in Our Time : From World War II to Nixon--What Happened and Why:
American Mischiefby Alan LelchukISBN 0374104212 (0-374-10421-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Mischief'More editions of American Mischief:
-
American Pastoralby Philip RothISBN 0375701427 (0-375-70142-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Pastoral'Book summary:Philip Roth's 22nd book takes a life-long view of the American experience in this thoughtful investigation of the century's most divisive and explosive of decades, the '60s. Returning again to the voice of his literary alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth is at the top of his form. His prose is carefully controlled yet always fresh and intellectually subtle as he reconstructs the halcyon days, circa World War II, of Seymour "the Swede" Levov, a high school sports hero and all-around Great Guy who wants nothing more than to live in tranquillity. But as the Swede grows older and America crazier, history sweeps his family inexorably into its grip: His own daughter, Merry, commits an unpardonable act of "protest" against the Vietnam war that ultimately severs the Swede from any hope of happiness, family, or spiritual coherence. [via]
Angela Davis: An Autobiographyby Angela Yvonne DavisISBN 0394489780 (0-394-48978-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Angela Davis: An Autobiography'More editions of Angela Davis: An Autobiography:
Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decadeby Ellen WillisISBN 0394511379 (0-394-51137-9)
Hardcover
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade'More editions of Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade:
-
Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingusby Charles MingusISBN 0394436229 (0-394-43622-9)
Hardcover, Knopf
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingus'Book summary:A wild, lyrical, and anguished autobiography, in which Charles Mingus pays short shrift to the facts but plunges to the very bottom of his psyche, coming up for air only when it pleases him. He takes the reader through his childhood in Watts, his musical education by the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker, and his prodigious appetites--intellectual, culinary, and sexual. The book is a jumble, but a glorious one, by a certified American genius. [via]
More editions of Beneath the Underdog: His World As Composed by Mingus:
-
The Best and the Brightestby David HalberstamISBN 0394461630 (0-394-46163-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best and the Brightest'Book summary:David Halberstams masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.
Using portraits of Americas flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our countrys recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam, and why did we lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It is an American classic. [via]More editions of The Best and the Brightest:
-
A Boy's Own Storyby Edmund WhiteISBN 0375707409 (0-375-70740-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Boy's Own Story'Book summary:An instant classic upon its original publication, A Boy's Own Story is the first of Edmund White's highly acclaimed trilogy of autobiographical novels that brilliantly evoke a young man's coming of age and document American gay life through the last forty years.
The nameless narrator in this deeply affecting work reminisces about growing up in the 1950s with emotionally aloof, divorced parents, an unrelenting sister, and the schoolmates who taunt him. He finds consolation in literature and his fantastic imagination. Eager to cultivate intimate, enduring friendships, he becomes aware of his yearning to be loved by men, and struggles with the guilt and shame of accepting who he is. Written with lyrical delicacy and extraordinary power, A Boy's Own Story is a triumph. [via]More editions of A Boy's Own Story:
-
Cat's Cradleby Kurt VonnegutISBN 038533348X (0-385-33348-X)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Cat's Cradle'Book summary:Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature. At one time, this novel could probably be found on the bookshelf of every college kid in America; it's still a fabulous read and a great place to start if you're young enough to have missed the first Vonnegut craze. [via]
City Poet : The Life and Times of Frank O'Haraby Brad GoochISBN 0394571185 (0-394-57118-5)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'City Poet : The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara'More editions of City Poet : The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara:
Collected Poems of Frank O'Haraby D. Allen, Frank O'HaraISBN 0394439015 (0-394-43901-5)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara'More editions of Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara:
Contemporary American Poetryby A. PoulinISBN 0395286352 (0-395-28635-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Contemporary American Poetry'More editions of Contemporary American Poetry:
- Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395358051 (0-395-35805-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395432316 (0-395-43231-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395745322 (0-395-74532-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395050634 (0-395-05063-4)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395186188 (0-395-18618-8)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395286352 (0-395-28635-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin Co
- Contemporary American Poetry: ISBN 0395358051 (0-395-35805-1)
Contemporary American Poetryby Michael Waters, A. PoulinISBN 039577800X (0-395-77800-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Contemporary American Poetry'More editions of Contemporary American Poetry:
-
A Day in the Life : The Music and Artistry of the Beatlesby Mark HertsgaardISBN 0385315171 (0-385-31517-1)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'A Day in the Life : The Music and Artistry of the Beatles'Book summary:They are the most popular and accomplished musical artists of this century. But for more than three decades, the secrets behind the Beatles' unparalleled artistic evolution were beyond reach--sealed in a locked room at London's Abbey Road Studios. In this comprehensive and brilliantly rendered book the only "outsider" to gain access to these invaluable musical archives provides a new, fascinating look at the music and artistry of the Beatles, revealing how four untrained musicians merged their collective genius into a single creative force, how they came together to paint pictures with sound...and how album by album, the Beatles transformed the landscape of popular music forever.
Combining literary analysis and investigative reporting with page-turning storytelling and musical explication, author Mark Hertsgaard has written the first serious biography of the music of the Beatles. A Day in the Life takes readers inside the Beatles' creative process as never before, from the first tentative run-throughs in the studio of such classics as "Eleanor Rigby" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to the final master tapes.
Here we learn how George Harrison's stirring composition "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was completely transformed from an achingly meditative acoustic masterpiece to a hard-rocking hit--in forty-four takes. We recall how the fantastic final mix of "Strawberry Fields Forever" opens the door to a psychedelic utopia, but discover it is the haunting solo version that takes us down to the core of John Lennon's disillusioned soul. And only here do we see how the Beatles' audacious ability to reinvent themselves stamped the group's unfolding ingenuity on each album like a fingerprint.
With rare insight, Mark Hertsgaard unlocks the mystery of the century's most dynamic musical collaboration: the competitive and creative partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. A Day in the Life traces the way Lennon and McCartney worked together and paints an intricate picture of the composers as we have never seen them before: Paul, the optimistic foil who made John's ominous fragments whole...John, the natural poet who injected raw sexuality into "I Saw Her Standing There" by making a simple five word change.
Smart, fresh, compulsively readable, A Day in the Life reveals John, Paul, George, and Ringo not as celebrities or cultural icons but as musicians whose work will be remembered as some of the most important art of the twentieth century. [via]More editions of A Day in the Life : The Music and Artistry of the Beatles:
Death of a Rebelby Marc EliotISBN 0385136102 (0-385-13610-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Rebel'More editions of Death of a Rebel:
-
Desert Solitaireby Edward AbbeyISBN 0345326490 (0-345-32649-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Desert Solitaire'Book summary:a passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty."the new york times bookreviewedward abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at moab, utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, the world around him, and the heart that beat within, is a fascinating, sometimes raucous, always personal account of a place that has already disappeared, but is worth remembering and living through again and again [via]
More editions of Desert Solitaire:
Desolate Angel - A Biography : Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and Americaby Dennis McNallyISBN 0385300956 (0-385-30095-6)
Softcover, Dell Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolate Angel - A Biography : Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America'More editions of Desolate Angel - A Biography : Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America:
Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beats and Americaby Dennis McNallyISBN 0394500113 (0-394-50011-3)
Hardcover, Book Sales
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beats and America'More editions of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beats and America:
Digression on Some Poems by Frank O'Haraby Joe LesueurISBN 0374529043 (0-374-52904-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Digression on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara'Book summary:An unprecedented eyewitness account of the New York School, as seen between the lines of OHaras poetry[via]
Joe LeSueur lived with Frank OHara from 1955 until 1965, the years when OHara wrote his greatest poems, including To the Film Industry in Crisis, In Memory of My Feelings, Having a Coke with You, and the famous Lunch Poemsso called because OHara wrote them during his lunch break at the Museum of Modern Art, where he worked as a curator. (The artists he championed include Jackson Pollock, Joseph Cornell, Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Joan Mitchell, and Robert Rauschenberg.) The flowering of OHaras talent, cut short by a fatal car accident in 1966, produced some of the most exuberant, truly celebratory lyrics of the twentieth century. And it produced Americas greatest poet of city life since Whitman.
Alternating between OHaras poems and LeSueurs memory of the circumstances that inspired them, Digressions on Some Poems by Frank OHara is a literary commentary like no otheran affectionate, no-holds-barred memoir of OHara and the New York that animated his work: friends, lovers, movies, paintings, streets, apartments, music, parties, and pickups. This volume, which includes many of OHaras best-loved poems, is the most intimate, true-to-life portrait we will ever have of this quintessential American figure and his now legendary times.More editions of Digression on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara:
-
The Driftersby James A. MichenerISBN 0394462009 (0-394-46200-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drifters'Book summary:In his triumphant best seller, James Michener unfolds a powerful and poignant drama of six young runaways adrift in a world they have created out of dreams, drugs, and dedication to pleasure. With the sure touch of a master, Michener pulls us into the dark center of their private world, whether it's in Spain, Marrakech, or Mozambique, and exposes the naked nerve ends with shocking candor and infinite compassion.
"A superior, picaresque novel...and a revealing mirror held up to contemporary society."
JOHN BARKHAM REVIEWS [via]More editions of The Drifters:
-
Even Cowgirls Get the Bluesby Tom RobbinsISBN 0395245109 (0-395-24510-9)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues'Book summary:Listeners follow Sissy Hankshaw's odyssey from Virginia to chic Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and ecstatic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax. Unabridged. 12 CDs.[via]More editions of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues:
-
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,by Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0394464354 (0-394-46435-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,'Book summary:Heralded as the "best book on the dope decade" by the New York Times Book Review, Hunter S. Thompson's documented drug orgy through Las Vegas would no doubt leave Nancy Reagan blushing and D.A.R.E. founders rethinking their motto. Under the pseudonym of Raoul Duke, Thompson travels with his Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in a souped-up convertible dubbed the "Great Red Shark." In its trunk, they stow "two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and a whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers.... A quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls," which they manage to consume during their short tour.
On assignment from a sports magazine to cover "the fabulous Mint 400"--a free-for-all biker's race in the heart of the Nevada desert--the drug-a-delic duo stumbles through Vegas in hallucinatory hopes of finding the American dream (two truck-stop waitresses tell them it's nearby, but can't remember if it's on the right or the left). They of course never get the story, but they do commit the only sins in Vegas: "burning the locals, abusing the tourists, terrifying the help." For Thompson to remember and pen his experiences with such clarity and wit is nothing short of a miracle; an impressive feat no matter how one feels about the subject matter. A first-rate sensibility twinger, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a pop-culture classic, an icon of an era past, and a nugget of pure comedic genius. --Rebekah Warren [via]
More editions of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas; A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,:
-
The Fire-Eatersby David AlmondISBN 0385731701 (0-385-73170-1)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fire-Eaters'Book summary:Continuing his tradition of strange and wild novels for young adults, David Almond, in The Fire Eaters, introduces a bizarre character making a sparse living as a self-mutilating, fire-swallowing street performer. McNulty's existence shakes young protagonist Bobby Burns to the core as he contemplates the end of the world (the year is 1962 and the U.S. and Soviet Union seem to be heading toward nuclear war), power, pain, class, and death, as well as friendship. The menace and sweetness in Bobby's life parallels the worlds, big and small, he inhabits. A loving family, seaside home, and good friends form the foundation. But a crack in that wall is spreading: Bobby's father is ill, class differences are separating him from his best friend, and a ruthless schoolmaster is forcing Bobby to understand that everything has a price. McNulty's growled refrain--"Pay! You'll not see nowt till you pay!"--reiterates the lesson for the often bewildered, but ever stronger boy. Readers familiar with Almond's other haunting books, including the award-winning Skellig, will welcome this rich, challenging novel. As always, Almond refuses to shy away from the big topics, resulting in a novel dappled with light and dark, filled with wonder and mystery. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter [via]
Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixtiesby Peter LennonISBN 0330319124 (0-330-31912-4)
Softcover, Macmillan Pub Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties'More editions of Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties:
From Tom Wolfe Purple Decades: 1960-1980by Thomas WolfeISBN 0374278393 (0-374-27839-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'From Tom Wolfe Purple Decades: 1960-1980'More editions of From Tom Wolfe Purple Decades: 1960-1980:
The Great Conspiracy Trial: An Essay on Law, Liberty and the Constitutionby Jason EpsteinISBN 0394419065 (0-394-41906-5)
Hardcover, Random House
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Conspiracy Trial: An Essay on Law, Liberty and the Constitution'More editions of The Great Conspiracy Trial: An Essay on Law, Liberty and the Constitution:
-
Hell's Angelsby Hunter S. ThompsonISBN 0345410084 (0-345-41008-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Hell's Angels'Book summary:Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back to the world with all the fearsome force of a souped-up cyclone burning rubber. [via]
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murdersby Curt Gentry, Vincent BugliosiISBN 0393322238 (0-393-32223-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders'More editions of Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders:
-
In the Lake of the Woodsby Tim O'BrienISBN 0395488893 (0-395-48889-3)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Company
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Lake of the Woods'Book summary:Tim O'Brien has been writing about Vietnam in one way or another ever since he served there as an infantryman in the late 1960s. His earliest work on the subject, If I Die in a Combat Zone, was an intensely personal memoir of his own tour of duty; his books since then have featured many of the same elements of fear, boredom, and moral ambiguity but in a fictional setting. In 1994 O'Brien wrote In the Lake of the Woods, a novel that, while imbued with the troubled spirit of Vietnam, takes place entirely after the war and in the United States. The main character, John Wade, is a man in crisis: after spending years building a successful political career, he finds his future derailed during a bid for the U.S. Senate by revelations about his past as a soldier in Vietnam. The election lost by a landslide, John and his wife, Kathy, retreat to a small cabin on the shores of a Minnesota lake--from which Kathy mysteriously disappears.
Was she murdered? Did she run away? Instead of answering these questions, O'Brien raises even more as he slowly reveals past lives and long-hidden secrets. Included in this third-person narrative are "interviews" with the couple's friends and family as well as footnoted excerpts from a mix of fictionalized newspaper reports on the case and real reports pertaining to historical events--a mélange that lends the novel an eerie sense of verisimilitude. If Kathy's disappearance is at the heart of this work, then John's involvement in a My Lai-type massacre in Vietnam is its core, and O'Brien uses it to demonstrate how wars don't necessarily end when governments say they do. In the Lake of the Woods may not be true, but it feels true--and for Tim O'Brien, that's true enough. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of In the Lake of the Woods:
The Invisible Circusby Jennifer EganISBN 0385473796 (0-385-47379-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Invisible Circus'More editions of The Invisible Circus:
Knotsby Laing rdISBN 0394717767 (0-394-71776-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Knots'More editions of Knots:
-
Knotsby R.D. LaingISBN 0394432118 (0-394-43211-8)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Knots'Book summary:A series of dialogue-scenarios, which can be read as poems or plays, describing the "knots" and impasses in various kinds of human relationships. [via]
More editions of Knots:
-
The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poetsby David LehmanISBN 0385495331 (0-385-49533-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets'Book summary:Anyone who thinks that avant-garde movements can flourish only in Left Bank cafés would do well to read David Lehman's superb new book. Lehman, an editor, essayist, and poet, zeroes in on four extraordinary poets--John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler--who were friends, rivals, sometime collaborators, and passionate appreciators of each other's work from the late 1940s through the mid 1960s. This "remarkable gang of four" was, in Lehman's opinion, not only a true avant-garde--collective creators of new, subversive, nonmainstream art--but also "the last authentic avant-garde movement that we have had in American poetry." It's an ambitious thesis, but Lehman pulls it off in a narrative compounded of cultural history, biography, literary analysis, and great gossip.
Most fascinating are Lehman's insights into the inspiration that the poets found in the lives and works of contemporary painters--waggering abstract expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and the gentler figurative painters Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and Jane Freilicher, who came after them. As Ashbery put it, "The artists liked us and bought us drinks and we ... felt that they ... were free to be free in their painting in a way that most people felt was impossible for poetry." But each poet made it possible in his own way--Ashbery through surreal word collages, Koch through the pursuit of happiness in verse, O'Hara in witty telephonic stream of consciousness, and Schuyler by treating his feelings as objects. Lehman calls his book a study of "the bliss of being alive and young at a moment of maximum creative ferment," and that bliss fairly shimmers on the page. The Last Avant-Garde, a remarkable hybrid, succeeds in being both critically acute and luminously exciting. --David Laskin [via]
More editions of The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets:
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academeby Russell JacobyISBN 0374521751 (0-374-52175-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe'More editions of The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe:
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Prattby Jack OlsenISBN 0385493681 (0-385-49368-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt'More editions of Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt:
-
The Last of Her Kindby Sigrid NunezISBN 0374183813 (0-374-18381-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last of Her Kind'Book summary:[via]The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. As the novel's narrator, Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."More editions of The Last of Her Kind:
Life Studies and for the Union Deadby Robert LowellISBN 0374506280 (0-374-50628-0)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life Studies and for the Union Dead'More editions of Life Studies and for the Union Dead:
The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimageby Paul ElieISBN 0374529213 (0-374-52921-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage'More editions of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage:
Loose Changeby Sara DavidsonISBN 0385036302 (0-385-03630-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Loose Change'More editions of Loose Change:
Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedyby Mark KramerISBN 0394479548 (0-394-47954-8)
Hardcover, Knopf
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy'More editions of Mother Walter and the Pig Tragedy:
The Movement toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution; (a Collage)--a What? ..by Mitchell GoodmanISBN 0394709446 (0-394-70944-6)
Hardcover, Pilgrim Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Movement toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution; (a Collage)--a What? ..'More editions of The Movement toward a New America: The Beginnings of a Long Revolution; (a Collage)--a What? ..:
-
Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Reportby Hans KoningISBN 0393024741 (0-393-02474-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report'Book summary:A year of destiny, when history took a sharp turn. The murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the Tet Offensive, barricades in Paris and Chicago and huge peace marches leading seemingly nowhere. A book for the '80s in the context of 1968. [via]
More editions of Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Report:
No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylanby Robert SheltonISBN 0345347218 (0-345-34721-8)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan'More editions of No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan:
The Poetics of the New American Poetryby Donald M. Allen, Warren TallmanISBN 0394488202 (0-394-48820-2)
Hardcover
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Poetics of the New American Poetry'More editions of The Poetics of the New American Poetry:
-
The Politics of Experienceby Ronald David LaingISBN 039471475X (0-394-71475-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Politics of Experience'Book summary:R.D. Laing is at his most wickedly iconoclastic in this eloquent assault on conventional morality. Unorthodox to some, brilliantly original to others, The Politics of Experience goes beyond the usual theories of mental illness and alienation, and makes a convincing case for the "madness of morality." Compelling, unsettling, consistently absorbing, The Politics of Experience is a classic of genuine importance that will "excite, enthrall, and disturb. No one who reads it will remain unaffected." (Rollo May, Saturday Review)
[via]More editions of The Politics of Experience:
-
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthologyby Lester Bangs, Greil MarcusISBN 039453896X (0-394-53896-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthology'Book summary:Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in Rolling Stone and other major publications. [via]
More editions of Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : An Anthology:
The Purple Decadesby Tom Wolfe, Joe David BellamyISBN 0374239282 (0-374-23928-2)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purple Decades'More editions of The Purple Decades:
The Purple Decades: A Readerby Tom WolfeISBN 0374239274 (0-374-23927-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purple Decades: A Reader'More editions of The Purple Decades: A Reader:
Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacyby Stephen MacEdoISBN 0393971422 (0-393-97142-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy'More editions of Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy:
Reunion : A Memoirby Tom HaydenISBN 0394565339 (0-394-56533-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Reunion : A Memoir'More editions of Reunion : A Memoir:
-
The Right Stuffby Tom WolfeISBN 0374250324 (0-374-25032-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Right Stuff'Book summary:Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword, he notes that as late as 1970, almost one in four career Navy pilots died in accidents. "The Right Stuff," he explains, "became a story of why men were willing--willing?--delighted!--to take on such odds in this, an era literary people had long since characterized as the age of the anti-hero."
Wolfe's roots in New Journalism were intertwined with the nonfiction novel that Truman Capote had pioneered with In Cold Blood. As Capote did, Wolfe tells his story from a limited omniscient perspective, dropping into the lives of his "characters" as each in turn becomes a major player in the space program. After an opening chapter on the terror of being a test pilot's wife, the story cuts back to the late 1940s, when Americans were first attempting to break the sound barrier. Test pilots, we discover, are people who live fast lives with dangerous machines, not all of them airborne.
Wolfe traces Alan Shepard's suborbital flight and Gus Grissom's embarrassing panic on the high seas (making the controversial claim that Grissom flooded his Liberty capsule by blowing the escape hatch too soon). The author also produces an admiring portrait of John Glenn's apple-pie heroism and selfless dedication. By the time Wolfe concludes with a return to Yeager and his late-career exploits, the narrative's epic proportions and literary merits are secure. Certainly The Right Stuff is the best, the funniest, and the most vivid book ever written about America's manned space program. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
The Rise and Fall of the American Leftby John Patrick DigginsISBN 0393309177 (0-393-30917-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the American Left'More editions of The Rise and Fall of the American Left:
The Rise and Fall of the American Teenagerby Thomas HineISBN 0380728532 (0-380-72853-2)
Softcover, Perennial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager'More editions of The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager:
-
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Rollby Jim MillerISBN 0394739388 (0-394-73938-8)
Softcover, Rolling Stone
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll'Book summary:book/livre: english/pages 282 [via]
More editions of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll:
- The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: ISBN 0394403274 (0-394-40327-4)
Hardcover, Rolling Stone Press - The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: ISBN 0394732383 (0-394-73238-3)
Hardcover, Rolling Stone Press - The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: ISBN 0394739388 (0-394-73938-8)
Softcover, Rolling Stone
- The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll: ISBN 0394403274 (0-394-40327-4)
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, 1950-1980by Rolling Stone Magazine Staff, James V. MillerISBN 0394513223 (0-394-51322-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, 1950-1980'More editions of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, 1950-1980:
Rommel Drives on Deep into Egyptby Richard BrautiganISBN 0385288646 (0-385-28864-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt'More editions of Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt:
The Seven Laws of Moneyby Michael Phillips, Stewart Brand, Salli Rasberry, Dick RaymondISBN 0394706862 (0-394-70686-2)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Seven Laws of Money'More editions of The Seven Laws of Money:
-
The Sixtiesby AndersonISBN 0321156374 (0-321-15637-4)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sixties'Book summary:In The Sixties, Terry Anderson tackles the question of why American experienced a full decade of tumult and change, whose reverberations and consequences are still being felt in America today.
Always appreciated for its brevity, wit and captivating style, The Sixties enters its third edition with expanded coverage of the most interesting and important events, people and movements of the Sixties.
[via] 
Sixties Peopleby Michael Stern, Jane SternISBN 0333475186 (0-333-47518-6)
Hardcover, Macmillan
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Sixties People'More editions of Sixties People:
Tape for the Turn of the Yearby A. R. AmmonsISBN 0393312046 (0-393-31204-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tape for the Turn of the Year'More editions of Tape for the Turn of the Year:
-
Tell Me Why : A Beatles Commentaryby Tim RileyISBN 0394550617 (0-394-55061-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Tell Me Why : A Beatles Commentary'Book summary:Perhaps the first serious analysis of the Beatles' work and its impact on popular music, Tell Me Why is meticulous in its purpose and long overdue....Of the hundreds of books written about [the Beatles] none bring the musical knowledge and the familiarity with the period that Riley offers here."
-- Cleveland Plain Dealer
Album by album, song by song, Tim Riley gives us a new, deeper understanding of the Beatles. Outdistancing the countless tell-all biographies that have been written, Riley's study of the Beatles' music is as rigorous as it is soulful. He explores the entire Beatles catalogue, making clear that the legendary four were not simply teen idols -- that they were, in fact, brilliant musical innovators who created timeless songs and virtually invented the album-as-art.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of Tell Me Why : A Beatles Commentary:
-
The Things They Carriedby Tim O'BrienISBN 039551598X (0-395-51598-X)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Things They Carried'Book summary:"They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to."
A finalist for both the 1990 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Things They Carried marks a subtle but definitive line of demarcation between Tim O'Brien's earlier works about Vietnam, the memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone and the fictional Going After Cacciato, and this sly, almost hallucinatory book that is neither memoir nor novel nor collection of short stories but rather an artful combination of all three. Vietnam is still O'Brien's theme, but in this book he seems less interested in the war itself than in the myriad different perspectives from which he depicts it. Whereas Going After Cacciato played with reality, The Things They Carried plays with truth. The narrator of most of these stories is "Tim"; yet O'Brien freely admits that many of the events he chronicles in this collection never really happened. He never killed a man as "Tim" does in "The Man I Killed," and unlike Tim in "Ambush," he has no daughter named Kathleen. But just because a thing never happened doesn't make it any less true. In "On the Rainy River," the character Tim O'Brien responds to his draft notice by driving north, to the Canadian border where he spends six days in a deserted lodge in the company of an old man named Elroy while he wrestles with the choice between dodging the draft or going to war. The real Tim O'Brien never drove north, never found himself in a fishing boat 20 yards off the Canadian shore with a decision to make. The real Tim O'Brien quietly boarded the bus to Sioux Falls and was inducted into the United States Army. But the truth of "On the Rainy River" lies not in facts but in the genuineness of the experience it depicts: both Tims went to a war they didn't believe in; both considered themselves cowards for doing so. Every story in The Things They Carried speaks another truth that Tim O'Brien learned in Vietnam; it is this blurred line between truth and reality, fact and fiction, that makes his book unforgettable. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of The Things They Carried:
To Die for the Peopleby Huey P. NewtonISBN 0394718348 (0-394-71834-8)
Hardcover, Vintage Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'To Die for the People'More editions of To Die for the People:
Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Pressby Abe PeckISBN 039471217X (0-394-71217-X)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press'More editions of Uncovering the Sixties: The Life and Times of the Underground Press:
Waiting for the Manby Jeremy ReedISBN 0330325493 (0-330-32549-3)
Hardcover, Picador
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Waiting for the Man'More editions of Waiting for the Man:
What Really Happened to the Class of '65by Michael Medved, David WallechinskyISBN 0394400747 (0-394-40074-7)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'What Really Happened to the Class of '65'More editions of What Really Happened to the Class of '65:
-
Wonderland Avenue : Tales of Glamour and Excessby Danny SugermanISBN 0349101752 (0-349-10175-2)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Wonderland Avenue : Tales of Glamour and Excess'Book summary:[via]This is the autobiography of Danny Sugerman, Jim Morrison's protege and one-time manager of The Doors and then Iggy Pop. It is also an account of heroin addiction and the madness of life in the LA rock 'n' roll scene.More editions of Wonderland Avenue : Tales of Glamour and Excess:
Writings and Drawingsby Bob DylanISBN 0394482433 (0-394-48243-3)
Hardcover
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Writings and Drawings'More editions of Writings and Drawings:
Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974by John Morton BlumISBN 039330910X (0-393-30910-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974'More editions of Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}