Dream Time Chapters from the Sixties
Dream Time Chapters from the Sixties by Geoffrey O’Brien, published by Counterpoint in 2002, is a reprint edition comprising 194 pages. This book explores the sensibility of the 1960s through a unique blend of memoir, novel, and cultural history, offering insights into the complex impact of the late ’60s counterculture. O’Brien’s work stands apart from previous narratives that primarily spotlighted media icons, instead focusing on the experiences of younger and more marginal lives during this transformative era.
Readers will find a deep dive into the cultural archaeology of the 1960s, as O’Brien presents a deliberate experiment that challenges conventional celebrations of the decade. The book examines themes related to history, music, and popular culture, providing a nuanced perspective on the psychedelic and countercultural movements. Whether you experienced the era firsthand or wish you had, Dream Time offers a reflective account that captures the essence of a time marked by significant social change.
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Dazzling, innovative, and courageous, Dream Time plunges the reader deep into the sensibility of the ’60’s in a wonderful display of cultural archaeology. Far from being an unqualified celebration of the era, it is a deliberate experiment, combining the genres of memoir, novel, and cultural history in order to convey the complex impact of the late ’60’s counterculture. When Dream Time was published in 1988, it won Geoffrey O’Brien a Whiting Writer’s Award. Previous books on the subject had focused primarily on media icons such as Bob Dylan, John Lennon, or Andy Warhol; Dream Time shifts the focus to the ways in which the psychedelic and countercultural currents of the era played themselves out in younger and more marginal lives. If you lived it, but never really came to grips with it; if you missed it but wish you hadn’t–this is the book that tells it, at last, like it really was.
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