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(5) | None | Jack Engelhard's The Days of the Bitter End may well be the definitive word on the 1960s. This is a landmark book, masterfully evocative. Engelhard once again proves himself to be a truly great novelist in this beautifully crafted historical novel that recaptures an era that has left an indelible mark on our culture to this day. Read it and laugh, read it and weep, because it's all here, the way it was back then, the age of innocence soon to be shattered, but then reborn. This is what it was like to be young, every moment an adventure. Brilliant. Reviews "It's all here...masterfully written by one of the greatest novelists of our Age. Engelhard brings to bear his journalistic talents as well as matchless storytelling ability to put the reader right in the center of the action...of the story...of the times." - John W. Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969 "What a great story. If you missed the 60s - if you missed the excitement, the passion, the radicalism, the thrills, the hopes and dreams - this book brings it all alive. I could not put it down." - Kmgroup review "Another significant accomplishment from this versatile writer, and it resonates with the sort of dialogue and imagery that not only rings with credibility, but instantly evokes a 'you are there' feeling for the reader." - Nancy Sundstrom, Northern Express "Engelhard's writing is superb, and he offers up a slice of 1960s life that is vibrant and moving. The story is skillfully crafted, quite witty and intriguing." - Carie Morrison, Rambles.net About the Author: Contemporaries have hailed novelist Jack Engelhard as "the last Hemingway" and of being "a writer without peer and the conscience of us all." The New York Times commended the economy of his prose... "precise, almost clinical language." His bestselling novel Indecent Proposal made him internationally famous as the foremost chronicler of moral dilemmas and of topics dealing with temptation. Works that followed won him an even greater following, such as Escape from Mount Moriah, his book of memoirs that won awards for writing and for film. His latest novel Compulsive draws us into the mind of a compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, and seductively readable. Engelhard writes a weekly column for The Washington Times. His website: www.jackengelhard.com… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions Jack Engelhard's The Days of the Bitter End may well be the definitive word on the 1960s. This is a landmark book, masterfully evocative. Engelhard once again proves himself to be a truly great novelist in this beautifully crafted historical novel that recaptures an era that has left an indelible mark on our culture to this day. Read it and laugh, read it and weep, because it's all here, the way it was back then, the age of innocence soon to be shattered, but then reborn. This is what it was like to be young, every moment an adventure. Brilliant. Reviews "It's all here...masterfully written by one of the greatest novelists of our Age. Engelhard brings to bear his journalistic talents as well as matchless storytelling ability to put the reader right in the center of the action...of the story...of the times." - John W. Cassell, author of Crossroads: 1969 "What a great story. If you missed the 60s - if you missed the excitement, the passion, the radicalism, the thrills, the hopes and dreams - this book brings it all alive. I could not put it down." - Kmgroup review "Another significant accomplishment from this versatile writer, and it resonates with the sort of dialogue and imagery that not only rings with credibility, but instantly evokes a 'you are there' feeling for the reader." - Nancy Sundstrom, Northern Express "Engelhard's writing is superb, and he offers up a slice of 1960s life that is vibrant and moving. The story is skillfully crafted, quite witty and intriguing." - Carie Morrison, Rambles.net About the Author: Contemporaries have hailed novelist Jack Engelhard as "the last Hemingway" and of being "a writer without peer and the conscience of us all." The New York Times commended the economy of his prose... "precise, almost clinical language." His bestselling novel Indecent Proposal made him internationally famous as the foremost chronicler of moral dilemmas and of topics dealing with temptation. Works that followed won him an even greater following, such as Escape from Mount Moriah, his book of memoirs that won awards for writing and for film. His latest novel Compulsive draws us into the mind of a compulsive gambler in a work stunningly brilliant and original, and seductively readable. Engelhard writes a weekly column for The Washington Times. His website: www.jackengelhard.com ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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I found myself reading the pages of this book in reverent awe.
This was how it all began....this was the launch. Yes, the Beat Generation had been around since The Bomb. It was all over they said....live it up while you can.
But then something happened. It started in the Greenwich Village of the Early Sixties...in the Mad Abandon so charcteristic of the cafes and the scene on Bleecker Street.
Bob Dylan, Peter Paul and Mary, Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby, Lennie Bruce...started doing their thing...with gusto. An within ten years they had stood this Nation on its ear. It was more than music....it was a way of life. Shove America's sins in its nose....pull down the hypocritical suburbanites and their smug satisfaction....redesign America....say what you feel...do what you feel....DON'T DO what you DON'T feel....
It was a chilling vision for the older generation....yet those who preached it and sang it became the idols of my generation....
Jack Engelhard, the tough-minded journalist, veteran of the police and city hall beats, yet also a wandering immigrant soul so grateful for a home where you could raise your voice on the streets, was there. He saw it...He lived it...and in DAYS THE BITTER END he tells it.
Whether your soul cries out to relive from whence we came, or whether you want a first hand account of how it REALLY WAS back then...this book is for you.
Excitement....drama..alienation...ambition...the music, the libertine sex....most people cannot believe there was such a time and a place...A riveting novel of love and lust..of soaring joy and bitter despair...of Camelot awash and broken to pieces dream by dream in the two inch deep Perdenales River...oh yes of bitter downward change...from JFK to LBJ....like it or lump it....this is the way it was.
This book is a precious literary and historical resource...a stunning and disturbing hands on account of a nation bursting into flames...driven by the zeal of youth.
For me, a serious student and writer of the years that followed, this book was a spiritual experience.
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If you were "there", as I was, you will encounter a soul-stirring experience reading this book. If you weren't, you will learn some history as no one else could present it and enjoy a novel of love, war, struggle and greed that ranks with the very best of American literature.
This story is SENSATIONAL. (