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EXPECTING TO FLY IBD

MARTHA TOD DUDMAN
SIMON & SCHUSTER
06 / 2007
9781416568117
Anglès

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DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN? MARTHA TOD DUDMAN DOES.It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties.Describing a time weirdly similar to today, Expecting to Fly recalls a conservative government embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war, racial tensions, and a generation of disillusioned young people looking for something meaningful to believe in -- teenagers who, like Dudman, hurled themselves into a sea of drugs and sex they weren?t really ready for.With the same passion and brutal honesty that she brought to her first book, Augusta, Gone -- the story of her daughter?s troubled adolescence -- Dudman re-creates her own wild ride through the turbulent Sixties, vividly recounting scenes you probably experienced yourself.From the prim tradition of a posh girls? school and debutante parties of Washington, D.C., to the snows of New Hampshire and the campaign for Eugene McCarthy, from living out of a knapsack in Spain to getting stoned on acid in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Expecting to Fly takes us on a blistering trip to a time when the only thing you couldn?t be was shocked.Now, years later, Dudman reflects on that time and what it means: 'Which was it -- triumph, exploration, some important journey, or just a big stupid mistake, a total waste of time?'You decide.

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