The Neophiliacs by Christopher Booker
Around the mid-1950s, on a wave of technological advances, Western civilisation moved into a period of prosperity dwarfing anything that had ever gone before. How golden was this age of affluence? How did it come to spawn a legend? The Fifties and Sixties are said to have witnessed sexual, artistic and scientific revolutions, the explosion of youth culture, the creation of a classless society. The New Aristocrats were pop singers, clothes designers, actors and actresses, film-makers, photographers, artists, writers, models and restaurateurs. Christopher Booker disentangles fantasy and reality, the ephemeral from the enduring. He charts the rise and fall of a collective dream.Christopher Booker was a founding editor of Private Eye, to which he contributed regularly, and he also had a long-running Sunday Telegraph column. The Seven Fundamental Plots: Why We Make Tales, The Real Global Warming Catastrophe, The Big Deception, The Crazy Officials, Afraid to Death, and The Neophiliacs are among his best-selling novels. In July of this year, Booker passed away.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780712655057 |
| ISBN 10 | 0712655050 |
| Title | The Neophiliacs |
| Author | Christopher Booker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1992-11-12 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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