The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties by Riley, James

The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties

'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday Times Beneath...
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Author: James Riley
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The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties by Riley, James

The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties

$40.65

The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties

$40.65
Author: James Riley
Format: Paperback
Language: English

'A history that makes perfect sense when the sky is falling down.' - The Sunday Times

Beneath the psychedelic utopianism of the sixties lay a dark seam of apocalyptic thinking that seemed to rupture into violence and despair by 1969.

Literary and cultural historian James Riley descends into this underworld and traces the historical and conspiratorial threads connecting art, film, poetry, politics, murder and revolt. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the Manson Family and Roman Polanski, ley-line hunters and Illuminati believers, Aldous Huxley, Joan Didion and the Beat poets, radical protest movements and occult groups all come together in Riley's gripping narrative.

Steeped in the hopes, dreams and anxieties of the late 1960s and early '70s, The Bad Trip tells the strange stories of some of the period's most compelling figures as they approached the end of an era and imagined new worlds ahead.



Author: James Riley
Publisher: Icon Books
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781785785948

About the Author
James Riley is a Fellow of English Literature at Girton College, Cambridge, focusing on modern and contemporary literature, popular film and 1960s culture. He co-edited The 1960s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2018). He also makes films and performs spoken word poetry.

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