by Jenny Diski · Profile Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846680045
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«The Sixties» is the historical essay by Jenny Diski, published by Profile Books in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Jenny Diski examines with irony the sixties and the big ideas that marked the decade, such as liberation, permissiveness and self-invention. From her experience in London, she asks whether her generation believed in changing the world, who financed the revolution and how that hedonism fed the selfishness of the eighties. Thus she dismantles the myths of a decisive decade.
Published in July 2010 as part of the Big Ideas series from Profile Books; its full title is The Sixties: Big Ideas // Small Books.
Readers interested in social and cultural history who want a personal and ironic view of sixties London.
Jenny Diski FRSL was an English novelist, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books; articles and essays she wrote for the publication are in the collections Don't and Why Didn't You Do What You Were Told? Her memoirs include In Gratitude, The Sixties, Skating to Antarctica, and Stranger on a Train: Daydreaming and Smoking around America With Interruptions, for which she won the 2003 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
