Hippie Chick, Ilene English
Hippie Chick, Ilene English
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Hippie Chick
Coming of Age in the '60s

Author: Ilene English

Narrator: Ilene English

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/15/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

In Hippie Chick, a rebellious teenager finds her mother dead in the bathroom. To save her from living alone with a difficult father, her older sister sends her a one-way plane ticket to leave New Jersey. Landing in San Francisco, she is thrust into a lifestyle way beyond what she is ready for, and that challenges all previous notions of how one behaves. It is 1963, and we are brought along as Ilene becomes immersed in the unfolding of the sixties during the earliest days of sexual freedom, psychedelic drugs, the jazz scene, and rock ’n’ roll. This is a deeply personal story of how one young woman manages to survive and even to thrive in the face of the whirlwind of experiences coming at her. It is filled with a rich tapestry of moments that run the gamut from the sublime to the ridiculous, and everything in between. Narrated by the author.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valerity (Val) on August 17, 2019

This was pretty different as you follow Ilene, who is the youngest of six kids and the last to leave home in New Jersey. Her mother died when she was sixteen, and while she loves her father, she wants out of the house as he is difficult and temperamental. When her sister Carole provides her with a p......more

Goodreads review by Cheryl on June 28, 2019

With the recent rash of best sellers focusing on coming of age in the sixties, I was attracted to Hippie Chick as a non fiction book. Ilene English was born in Irvington, New Jersey, the "baby" in a family of six children, with only one brother, David, her immediate senior. Her father struggled to......more

Goodreads review by John on August 15, 2019

The magic in "Hippie Chick: Coming of Age in the '60s" by Ilene English begins with Chapter 9, which is about the author's recollections of Dr. Fariborz Amini, a Freudian analyst English started seeing when she was 19 years old. She saw Amini for three months and used her sessions to tell real-life......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 16, 2022

I love this book! It really puts you right back there in the '60s and onward. Ilene has had a remarkable life. As a young woman, she found herself in the middle of several movements/subcultures. She also had several heartbreaking family events, and managed to pull herself through. The book is a chro......more

Goodreads review by Denise on February 22, 2020

Ilene English's account of her experiences in the '60s, '70s, and '80s was a wonderful trip down memory lane. It brought back, for me, many groovy recollections of those amazing times. Not enough women's stories of that era have been told. I loved it.......more

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