Guess what I just ordered?
May. 18th, 2009 08:26 amA Day in the Life: One Family, the Beautiful People, and the End of the Sixties (Hardcover) by Robert Greenfield.
Why would I want this book, you ask? It's about my darling Jake Weber's family! I knew he had a hippie childhood and that he'd gone to Summerhill School, but never heard any details about his youth. But this - wow. From the Seattle Times review:
All of this would play as a typical '60s sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll fable if it weren't for the presence of the couple's two sons, who end up as shellshocked passengers on this doomed voyage. That Charley and Jake Weber survived this childhood — and Jake ended up as an actor on NBC's "Medium" — is the most remarkable part of the story. Much of Greenfield's account comes from the boys' memories, as Puss carts them across India in a scene that reads like Esther Freud's "Hideous Kinky," while Tommy uses them as drug mules.
Tommy=their Dad, "Puss"=their Mum, Susan Coriat
So Jake and his brother must have talked to Greenfield. I can't wait for this book to arrive!
Why would I want this book, you ask? It's about my darling Jake Weber's family! I knew he had a hippie childhood and that he'd gone to Summerhill School, but never heard any details about his youth. But this - wow. From the Seattle Times review:
All of this would play as a typical '60s sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll fable if it weren't for the presence of the couple's two sons, who end up as shellshocked passengers on this doomed voyage. That Charley and Jake Weber survived this childhood — and Jake ended up as an actor on NBC's "Medium" — is the most remarkable part of the story. Much of Greenfield's account comes from the boys' memories, as Puss carts them across India in a scene that reads like Esther Freud's "Hideous Kinky," while Tommy uses them as drug mules.
Tommy=their Dad, "Puss"=their Mum, Susan Coriat
So Jake and his brother must have talked to Greenfield. I can't wait for this book to arrive!