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The Swinging Sixties: new book's offbeat approach
Added: (Fri Oct 09 2009)
Somewhere In The Distance, by UK journalist David Soulsby, tells the compelling story of four friends growing up in the Swinging Sixties. It has an offbeat, dark feel, avoiding the usual hedonistic fun theme of many novels set in the period.
The author, who was a young reporter in the Sixties, has created four characters who have differing views on the world but who are drawn together by their love of rock 'n' roll and culture and idealistic dreams and hopes for a better world.
An evocative and emotional story sees innocence lost and disillusionment set in amid the turmoil of the Kennedy assassinations, the horrors of the Vietnam War and the surge in drugs use.
Since his early teens, the author has had a passion for rock 'n' roll and blues music and Somewhere In The Distance, published by AuthorHouse, is packed with musical references that act as a soundtrack to the exhilarating, but often moving, narrative.
Hopefully, readers who experienced the Sixties will be taken down memory lane, while those too young to remember the times will be introduced to the decade that changed society.
The book took five years to write, starting out as an insight into the 1968 and 1969 music festivals on the Isle of Wight, when the likes of Jefferson Airplane, The Move, Marc Bolan and Bob Dylan wooed the crowds, but became a mirror on all things Sixties.
For more details about the book and the author, go online to the Book Store at AuthorHouse
or check out http://www.davesixties.freewebspace.com
Email: dcsoulsby@googlemail.com