A Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the '60s: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties - Hardcover

Greenfield, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306816229 ISBN 13: 9780306816222

Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc, 2009

Synopsis

A Day in the Life is the story of how the ideal marriage between two young and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class fell apart as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way to the harsh, hard-rock reality of the seventies. A tender, moving, and often harrowing look at the moment in time when the counterculture collided with the international jet set, A Day in the Life captures the spirit of that era and the people who lived through it with unerring accuracy and heartfelt precision.When Tommy Weber and Susan "Puss" Coriat, London's most beautiful couple, were married in 1964, it was the fitting end to a storybook romance. But the fast cars Tommy loved to race, their celebrity friends, and the huge trust fund Puss had inherited masked a tortured truth--both had suffered through oppressive and neglectful childhoods and were now caught up in a wildly extravagant lifestyle that neither Puss' inheritance nor Tommy's increasingly desperate schemes could support. Six years later, Puss found herself wandering around India with her two sons while Tommy, who was now smuggling drugs to survive, lived in London with a stunning young actress. A Day in the Life is also the stirring account of how the couple's tow sons--one of whom is the well-known actor Jake Weber--somehow managed to survive a childhood that would have destroyed those of lesser spirit. An unbelievable true-life tale that often reads like a novel, A Day in the Life follow the fortunes and misfortunes of one remarkable family while also introducing us to an extensive cast of supporting characters that includes Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Charlotte Rampling, as well as many of the movers and shakers who helped create the "Swinging London" scene.

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Review:

"A eulogy for the 1960s...Though it often reads like an extended society gossip column, the narrative is studded with enough trivia and name-dropping to engage ex-hippies and other fans of '60s culture."

"A Day in the Life is well researched, and the interviews with Jake and Charley Weber, the couple's tempest-tossed sons, are engrossing...Greenfield is a vivid writer with an unmatched grip on the tawdry. Many anecdotes are entertaining."

Review:

"Greenfield's reporting skill is admirable, and when he quotes Puss'
last letter to her sons, it is bone-chilling. As the author of two previous books on the Rolling Stones, Greenfield brings the decade to life as well as any writer, without ignoring the darkness that soon envelops this family."

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0306816229
• ISBN 13: 9780306816222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368