{"product_id":"9781439104484","title":"Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning","description":"\u003cb\u003eDO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN? MARTHA TOD DUDMAN DOES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescribing a time weirdly similar to today, \u003ci\u003eExpecting to Fly\u003c\/i\u003e recalls a conservative government embroiled in an increasingly unpopular war, racial tensions, and a generation of disillusioned young people looking for something meaningful to believe in -- teenagers who, like Dudman, hurled themselves into a sea of drugs and sex they weren't really ready for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the same passion and brutal honesty that she brought to her first book, \u003ci\u003eAugusta, Gone\u003c\/i\u003e -- the story of her daughter's troubled adolescence -- Dudman re-creates her own wild ride through the turbulent Sixties, vividly recounting scenes you probably experienced yourself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the prim tradition of a posh girls' school and debutante parties of Washington, D.C., to the snows of New Hampshire and the campaign for Eugene McCarthy, from living out of a knapsack in Spain to getting stoned on acid in Yellow Springs, Ohio, \u003ci\u003eExpecting to Fly\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a blistering trip to a time when the only thing you couldn't be was shocked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, years later, Dudman reflects on that time and what it means: \"Which was it -- triumph, exploration, some important journey, or just a big stupid mistake, a total waste of time?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou decide.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142614794480,"sku":"9781439104484","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439104484_p0.jpg?v=1763755630","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439104484","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}