{"product_id":"9780061185007","title":"The Sixties : Diaries 1960-1969","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sixties\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Christopher Isherwood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intimate and compulsively readable.” —Alfred Corn, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of acclaimed author Christopher Isherwood’s diaries takes readers to the heart of the 1960s, the decade in which Isherwood’s semiautobiographical novel \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin \u003c\/em\u003ewould be adapted into the Tony Award-winning musical \u003cem\u003eCabaret\u003c\/em\u003e. Against a background of cultural paradigm shifts including the advent of space travel, pop art, and mod fashion, and seminal events like the Kennedy\/Nixon election, the Marianne Faithfull\/Mick Jagger romance, the rise of the Hippie movement, and the riotous explosion of America’s inner cities, \u003cem\u003eThe Sixties \u003c\/em\u003efollows Isherwood’s friendships with creative powerhouses such as Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Richard Burton, and Gore Vidal, and continues the saga of his great romance with portraitist Don Bachardy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“An intimate portrait of the life of a beautiful if neurotic mind… streaked with gossip, flinty observations, great good humor and—despite Isherwood’s fundamental discretion—plenty of frank talk.”\u003cbr\u003e“These diaries are, in their core, a love story…thanks to [them], we bear witness to it all—and are all the richer for it.”\u003cbr\u003e“A good writer…intensely self-aware…a fascinating companion…THE SIXTIES [is] accessible to everyone…a true piece of social history.”\u003cbr\u003e“The diary entries in The Sixties are a mix of quotidian detail, social observation, moody reverie, gossip and self-rebuke.”\u003cbr\u003e“Gossipy, funny, wide-ranging, and revealing…[Isherwood] comes across as approachable, aware, and passionately interested.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780061185007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41038790230222,"sku":"9780061185007","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780061185007_724b2a2f-b7db-476a-8128-0a148f598c80.jpg?v=1652158583","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780061185007","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}