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Original Title:	Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
ISBN:	0060198168 (ISBN13: 9780060198169)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Ambassador Book Award for Autobiography (2008)

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Robert Stone

Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 382 Users | 53 Reviews

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Title	:	Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
Author	:	Robert Stone
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	January 9th 2007 by Ecco (first published January 4th 2007)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. History. Biography. Cultural. Biography Memoir

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A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade, in the words of the man who experienced it all...

From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, fascinating glory. An account framed by two wars, it begins with Robert Stone's last year in the Navy, when he took part in an Antarctic expedition navigating the globe, and ends in Vietnam, where he was a correspondent in the days following the invasion of Laos. Told in scintillating detail, Prime Green zips from coast to coast, from days spent in the raucous offices of Manhattan tabloids to the breathtaking beaches of Mexico, and merry times aboard the bus with Kesey and the Pranksters.

Building on personal vignettes from Stone's travels across America, this powerful memoir offers the legendary novelist's inside perspective on a time many understand only peripherally. These accounts of the 1960s are riveting not only because Stone is a master storyteller but because he was there, in the thick of it, through all the wild times. From these incredible experiences, Prime Green forges a moving and adventurous portrait of a unique moment in American history.

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It is an excellent book on the sixties. The book goes into depth.

I can't remember when I started and finished this book, but it was some time ago. I'm afraid this is going to be a rather incomplete review based on my recollected impressions of the book.Stone starts out by giving the reader a quick background on his life up until the time he joined the Navy in the late 1950s. He was raised by a single Mother who worked as a school teacher and they lived in relative poverty in New York City. He joined the Navy as much to escape this life and travel as anything

It is difficult to understate how disappointing this memoir of the 1960s is. You'd expect that Robert Stone, who was on the bus with Ken Kesey, would have as much insight into the era as anyone. But if that's the case, it didn't come out in this book. Instead, Stone largely comes across as shallow and boring.One bon mot that I liked (which came in the epilogue, which shows how scattershot this work is):"One principle of international reportage familiar to any traveler or expatriate must be that

Overall a disappointment. It was a little self-indulgent and lost my interest about 2/3 of the way through.

Since I just traveled to Woodstock and Bethel,and since I have an opportunity to see one of my favorite novelists (Stone) on November 19th at the Philly Free Library,it was fitting I would pick up this book. While I somewhat expected a witty memoir of his adventures with the Merry Pranksters in their day-glo Hippie bus,this book was dark, political and reflexive, and was more about the change and philosophy of the the age than about the adventures of Dean Moriary,Kesey and company. Stone is a

Picked this up at the local library book sale. I've never read a novel by Mr. Stone, though I intend to. There're a lot of writers in that category! I did see "Who'll Stop the Rain," the most excellent film version of "Dog Soldiers." GREAT cast in that movie ... Certainly one of the best movies from the Vietnam era. So far we're still in the late 50's. Mr. Stone is about my brother's age = 9 years older than I am.Into the middle of this now - the early 1960's - RS is in SF and hooking up with

A good Sixties memoir, in which Stone casts himself as a rather hapless picaresque observer on the margins of the military, Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, hack writing in various settings, the summer of love, Hollywood, and the Vietnam war. He calls New Orleans "self-referential" twice in the same chapter. He says he read Kerouac's "On the Road" and never believed anybody actually talked like Dean Moriarty until he actually got to know the real life character, Neal Casady, the bus driver for the