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Author:	Barry Levinson	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Bantam Dell Pub Group	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	076791533X	ISBN-13:	9780767915335
Subject:	Life Stages / Adolescence	Publication Year:	2003
Topic:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Like New

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Barry Levinson, director and screenwriter of (among other movies) DINER, writes his first novel about life in the '60s as he tells the tale of young Bobby Shine and his buddies, and their problematic coming of age in a world tainted by Vietnam.
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Length:	271 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.8 in.
Thickness:	1.0 in.
Weight:	15.2 oz.

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Welcome to Baltimore, 1966, a quiet Eastern city of row houses, blue-collar neighborhoods, and burgeoning suburbs, a place as yet untouched by the upheavals of 1960's America. A place where everything is about to change. What was once so simple now seems complicated. Delicatessens that served delicious slabs of pastrami are now serving sprouts. Song lyrics are angry and raw. Acid is being dropped and the normal life paths—school, marriage, a safe career—seem irrelevant. Or, worse, boring. Even friendship is more complicated. As society's shifts begin to take hold, the people at the heart of Sixty-Six know they have something to hold on to: each other . . . Bobby Shine, an intern at the local television station; the soulful and rebellious Neil; Ben Kallin, the "King of the Teenagers"; Turko and Eggy, comic philosophers extraordinaire. They spend their time together hanging out at the Hilltop Diner, wisecracking, coping, falling in and out of love, planning for a glorious future. As the decade explodes, however, these young people are caught between the staid and traditional values of the fifties, and the confusion, turbulence, and exhilaration of the sixties. As the fighting in Vietnam escalates and the antiwar movement at home reaches fever pitch, their insular world will be rocked by violence and tragedy. As the growing Civil Rights movement sweeps across the country, they will see the best and worst of their parents’ generation. And as the hippie movement rockets across the cultural landscape, they will both embrace and be torn apart by the new freedoms afforded them. Together, they will have to confront as bewildering and wrenching a set of transformations as America has ever faced_—and each one of them will leave 1966 changed forever. Barry Levinson has moved us with such superb films as Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, The Natural, and, of course, the much-loved Diner. With the same humor, depth of insight, affection for his characters, and glorious dialogue that make his movies so memorable, Levinson has written a first novel of enormous heart, a book that takes us back to a time in our history when everything was at stake and nothing would ever be the same.

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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 076791533X
Title : Sixty-Six
Authors : Barry Levinson
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Broadway
Publication Date : 2003-09-16
Pages : 288
List Price (MSRP) : 24.00
Height : 1.0000 inches
Width : 5.8000 inches
Length : 8.2800 inches
Weight : 0.9700 pounds
Keywords : Contemporary, Historical
Condition : Like New

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