Out of the Sixties: Storytelling and the Vietnam Generation

by David Wyatt

Book Overview

In a highly original study, David Wyatt takes a broad, yet personal, look at the cultural legacy of the sixties through ten creative figures who came of age during the Vietnam War. Wyatt argues that it is each artist's personal engagement with his or her own era that binds together the achievements of storytellers such as filmmaker George Lucas, songwriter Bruce Springsteen, playwright Sam Shepard, journalist Michael Herr, writers Ann Beattie, Alice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521446899
• ISBN13: 9780521446891
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"