69: A Novel (Kodansha Modern Writers) - Softcover

Murakami, Ryu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 4770019513 ISBN 13: 9784770019516

Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd, 1995

Synopsis

In 1969, they were seventeen. They read Rimbaud, played guitars, smoked pot, fell in love, rebelled against the establishment, protested the war in Vietnam, barricaded high school, and produced the first rock festival in their home town. This title presents the coming of age during a time that left its mark on baby boomers around the world. In 1969 we were seventeen. We listened to the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Grateful Dead, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan. We read Rimbaud, played guitars, smoked pot, fell in love, rebelled against the

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Review

"A light, rollicking, sometimes hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan." --Library Journal"A great deal of fun, and Murakami ... is a find." --Kirkus Reviews"The hero is a thoroughly engaging smartass." --Los Angeles Times"A superb and very funny bluffer, and one sympathizes with him all the way." --Atlantic Monthly"A cross between The Catcher and the Rye and The Strawberry Statement." --Review of Contemporary Fiction "A light, rollicking, sometimes hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan." --Library Journal "A great deal of fun, and Murakami ... is a find." --Kirkus Reviews "The hero is a thoroughly engaging smartass." --Los Angeles Times "A superb and very funny bluffer, and one sympathizes with him all the way." --Atlantic Monthly "A cross between The Catcher and the Rye and The Strawberry Statement." --Review of Contemporary Fiction "A light, rollicking, sometimes hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan." --Library Journal "A great deal of fun, and Murakami ... is a find." --Kirkus Reviews "The hero is a thoroughly engaging smartass." --Los Angeles Times "A superb and very funny bluffer, and one sympathizes with him all the way." --Atlantic Monthly "A cross between The Catcher and the Rye and The Strawberry Statement." --Review of Contemporary Fiction "A light, rollicking, sometimes hilarious, but never sentimental picture of late-sixties Japan." --Library Journal"A great deal of fun, and Murakami ... is a find." --Kirkus Reviews"The hero is a thoroughly engaging smartass." --Los Angeles Times"A superb and very funny bluffer, and one sympathizes with him all the way." --Atlantic Monthly"A cross between The Catcher and the Rye and The Strawberry Statement." --Review of Contemporary Fiction

About the Author

Whether writing novels, directing films or playing drums in a rock band, RYU MURAKAMI has remained on the cutting edge of popular culture in Japan. He is the recipient of some of the country's most prestigious awards, including the Akutagawa Prize in 1976 for his debut novel, Almost Transparent Blue, which has gone on to sell over two million copies worldwide; and the Yomiuri Literary Award in 1998 for In the Miso Soup, published by Kodansha in hardcover in the United States in 2003, with a trade paperback edition coming from Penguin in 2006. In 1992, Murakami wrote and directed the film "Tokyo Decadence," which had its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. He also wrote and directed the film version of Sixty-Nine (2004), available on DVD in English. A movie of Coin Locker Babies is scheduled for a 2006/07 release, with a screenplay by Sean Lennon and starring Val Kilmer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kodansha International Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 4770019513
• ISBN 13: 9784770019516
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192