A day in the life

one family, the beautiful people, and the end of the sixties

1st Da Capo Press ed.
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Robert Greenfield
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A day in the life

one family, the beautiful people, and the end of the sixties

1st Da Capo Press ed.
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A Day in the Life is the story of how the ideal marriage between two young and extraordinarily beautiful members of the English upper class fell apart as the psychedelic dreams of the sixties gave way to the harsh, hard-rock reality of the seventies. A tender, moving, and often harrowing look at the moment in time when the counterculture collided with the international jet set, A Day in the Life captures the spirit of that era and the people who lived through it with unerring accuracy and heartfelt precision. When Tommy Weber and Susan "Puss" Coriat, London's most beautiful couple, were married in 1964, it was the fitting end to a storybook romance. But the fast cars Tommy loved to race, their celebrity friends, and the huge trust fund Puss had inherited masked a tortured truth—both had suffered through oppressive and neglectful childhoods and were now caught up in a wildly extravagant lifestyle that neither Puss' inheritance nor Tommy's increasingly desperate schemes could support. Six years later, Puss found herself wandering around India with her two sons while Tommy, who was now smuggling drugs to survive, lived in London with a stunning young actress. A Day in the Life is also the stirring account of how the couple's two sons—one of whom is the well-known actor Jake Weber—somehow managed to survive a childhood that would have destroyed those of lesser spirit. An unbelievable true-life tale that often reads like a novel, A Day in the Life follow the fortunes and misfortunes of one remarkable family while also introducing us to an extensive cast of supporting characters that includes Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Lennon, and Charlotte Rampling, as well as many of the movers and shakers who helped create the "Swinging London" scene.

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Da Capo Press
Language
English
Pages
338

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Table of Contents

Prologue: A day in the life, Villa Nellcote, June
Hald Hovedgaard
Twatley Manor
New Barn Farm and Haileybury
Lilliesden and Cambridge
Pont Street
Holy Trinity Church
Cambridge Street
The Flying Dragon
Glastonbury and Hugh Street
London to Sydney
Samye Ling and Lundy Island
Chester Square
Almora
On the way home
Warneford and Bowden House
Ardeley
Villa Nellcote
On the Riviera
On the road
St. Ann's villas
Rugby
Epilogue: Another day in the life, Ardeley, December.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Genre
Biography., Case studies.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
942.085/60922
Library of Congress
CT788.W396 G74 2009, CT788.W396G74 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
338

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23079550M
ISBN 13
9780306816222
LCCN
2009004146
OCLC/WorldCat
191926159
Library Thing
8314851
Goodreads
6296603

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