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Next Year Will be Better : A Memoir of the 1950s

Lucas, John
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
Published: October 21, 2010
ISBN: 9781905512911
320 pages, photographs

£14.99

The 1950s are often seen as the “grey decade”, marred by austerity, rationing and conformity. True, but Next Year Will Be Better also tells of skiffle, jazz, CND, Teds, the Angry Young Men, new movements in art and literature. Meanwhile there was work to be had, on building sites and on holiday camps. And there was the joys of Eel Pie Island, Soho, hearing Louis Armstrong, playing jazz and being kissed by Alan Ginsberg.

“Only a dedicated sourpuss could fail to be swept along by Lucas’s zest and intelligence” – The Spectator

John Lucas is an Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham. His 92 Acharnon Street won the Authors Club Dolman Prize for Travel Writing and was reviewed everywhere. He is the author of over forty books of poetry, social history and criticism and is the editor at Shoestring Press.

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