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Strange Days Indeed - The Golden Age of Paranoia (Paperback)
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Strange Days Indeed - The Golden Age of Paranoia (Paperback)
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Loot Price R234
Discovery Miles 2 340
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'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the
office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold
leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.' A
jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined
by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen's wonderfully acute sense
of the absurd. The nostalgic whiff of the seventies evokes memories
of loons and disco, Abba and Fawlty Towers. However, beneath the
long hair it was really a theme park of mass paranoia. 'Strange
Days Indeed' tells the story of the decade that a young Francis
Wheen walked into having pronounced he was dropping out to join the
alternative society. Instead of the optimistic dreams of the
sixties he found a world on the verge of a collective nervous
breakdown, huddled over candles waiting for the next terrorist
bomb, kidnapping or food shortage warning. Whether it was Nixon's
demented behaviour in the White House, Harold Wilson's insistence
that 'they' (whoever 'they' were) were out to get him, or the trial
of Rupert Bear, it is a story almost too fantastical to be true.
With his brilliantly acute sense of the absurd Francis Wheen slices
through the pungent melange of mistrust and conspiratorial fever to
expose the sickly form of a decade in which nations were brought to
a sclerotic halt by power cuts, military coups, economic anarchy
and the arrival of Uri Geller. Since the Great Crash of our
generation barely a week passes without some allusion to that
distant decade. As we are consumed by the heady stench of our own
collective meltdown, there is no better guide than Francis Wheen to
shine his Swiftian light on the true nature of the era that has
returned to haunt us. Amidst the chaos 'Strange Days Indeed' is an
hilarious and jaw-droppingly revealing chronicle of the golden age
of the paranoid style.
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