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Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of American (Ameri)Ca's Fall from Grace
In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace, National Magazine Award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the "blue sky tribe" of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was gone. Blue Sky Dream is a book incredibly rich in ideas, in ways of seeing the recent past with stunning clarity. David Beers explores issues that define our times - downsizing, middle-class anxiety, the profound anger with government, the sense that something has gone awry with the United States - with such skill, personal immediacy, and compassion that readers will see their own histories in his prose. Blue Sky Dream can rightly be called a communal memoir, because in telling his family's tale - growing tensions and disillusionment in their suburban paradise, a son rejecting his parents' values, one sudden and inexplicable moment of violence - Beers tells the story of his people, the blue sky tribe "who imagined ourselves to be living the inevitable future, and are very surprised today to discover we were but a strange and aberrant moment that is now receding into history."
Book Details
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Publish Date: Sep 15th, 1997
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.40in - 0.70in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780156005319
- Categories: • Literary Figures• Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - General