60s literature - suggestions pls

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Am doing OU course and need some suggestions for some good 60s literature poetry/prose/UK/US. Its in relation to a sort of counter cultural question, so I suppose someone like Kerouac, but have never got on too well with him. Any ideas you cultural lot?

Many thanks in advance.........

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fab

I can't stick that sort of stoned stream of consciousness writing

It is one thing being on psychedelic drugs, quite another reading about someone else's boring old trip

Joe Orton is a God though.

Written in the 60s. I suppose I'm looking for something to argue around the issue of whether there was a true cultural revolution. Many thanks again, am going to check as many of these out as poss.

William Styron - the Confessions of Nat Turner (pulitzer prize in 196-something)
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Robert Bolt - Man for All seasons
Alexander Solzhenitsen (sp?) - Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Norman Mailer - Armies of the night
Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing in America.

There is an interesting children's book by Antonia Forest called 'The Thuggery Affair' which describes brilliantly a middle class nice girl's encounter with some naughty beatnik types. Hard to get hold of, though.

Neither of my suggested books was originally published in the 60's so scrub them

I would also say Play Power by Richard Neville (former editor of Oz magazine) but that was actually published in 1970.

There definitely was a counter culture expressed in books, art and music though, I can vouch for that personally

Not sure if 'Skinhead' by Richard Allen was written in the 60's (poss. early 70's)

It's really hard trying to think of non US literature from that era. What about Ken Tynan's 'Oh Calcutta' ? - was that 60's? John Lennon, Yoko Ono stuff?? Margaret Attwood 'The Edible Woman'?

What's the title of your dissertation?

(FAZ - glad you like Orton too, I used to be a bit obsessed by him/his lifestyle , not sure why )

Saturday Night Sunday Morning

Oh and Billy Liar

Other Burrough stuff from 60S include The Soft Machine (61), The Ticket That Exploded (62) and Nova Express (64).