Listening to Coloured Dreams
by Martin Phillips
A collection of intuitively observed short stories about British youth in the 1960s. Based in part on autobiographical fragments, the stories create an engaging blend of remembered intoxication and retrospective insight.
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London, youth culture, 1960s memoir, music in 1960s, first love, cultural identity, summer of love, suburbia, RevolverPeople
Ted Heath, Fleetwood Mac, Ben Jonson, hippies, the phantom screamer, BeatlesPlaces
London, Wales, North Kent, Bromley, ChiselhurstTimes
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"It was all over remarkably quickly really; one moment you were getting your rocks off in the summer of love and the next you were reading about it in everything from the tabloids to the up-market glossies."
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A humorous and poignant collection of short stories about growing up in the 1960s. Themes are eclectic,ranging from first love to life in a university hall of residence, via a production of "Volpone" staged in Denmark, used as an elegy to lost youth. These are carefully crafted tales from an era often chronicled but not often often captured as engagingly.
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| April 13, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the edition. |
| March 16, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | add editions to new work |
| January 11, 2010 | Edited by 82.153.136.20 | corrected spelling |
| January 11, 2010 | Edited by 82.153.136.20 | Added Description and First Sentence |
| April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |