Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like bushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.
Lire la suiteThe start of the new year still goes for many of us with curfews, confinement, closed bars-restaurants and cultural places, and therefore, more time spent at home. Then what better than a good book to get away from it all and forget about the gloomy news for just a few hours...
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