{"product_id":"expecting-to-fly","title":"Expecting to Fly","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 Product","offer_id":57297361404248,"sku":"9781416568117","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781416568117.jpg?v=1778834781","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/expecting-to-fly","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}