Balsamic Dreams

by Joe Queenan

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for Balsamic Dreams

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

How did a generation that started out at Woodstock and Monterey Pop Concert end up at Crate & Barrel? How did a generation that promised to 'teach its children well' end up with progeny so evil they could give that kid from The Omen a run for his money? This is vintage Queenan tirade chronicling the evolution of his own Baby Boomer generation. In this hilarious work of social commentary, professional iconoclast Queenan shows how a generation with so much promise lost its way by confusing pop culture with culture and mistaking lifestyle for life.

`Queenan skewers the vanity of the unexamined mind every time … [his] targets may be American, but he hits them with all the alluringly familiar accuracy and rage of Kingsley Amis or Auberon Waugh. Oh for more like them – and him.’ Sunday Telegraph, Seven

'A hilarious and trenchantly accusatory dismissal of a generation's underachievement, self-importance and refusal to grow up.' Metro Life

'Balsamic Dreams makes for a diverting and often amusing read' Ireland on Sunday

'This book reads like an extended stand-up routine' Mail on Sunday
  • ISBN10 0330542079
  • ISBN13 9780330542074
  • Publish Date 1 January 2015 (first published 5 June 2001)
  • Publish Status Cancelled
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Pan Macmillan
  • Imprint Picador
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Language English