The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir |  | Author: Clane Hayward
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 198811
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0811859452
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.568
EAN: 9780811859455
ASIN: 0811859452
Publication Date: October 4, 2007
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Born in San Francisco just before the Summer of Love, Clane Hayward grew up on hippie communes throughout the west. Her poignantly funny, sometimes melancholy, and always riveting memoir recounts her extraordinary life up until her thirteenth birthday. School was a particularly happy event it meant a hot lunch and clothes that matched! But Clane's mother warned her that schools are just zoos run by the government. From a world of complex relationships, uncertain rules and constant surprises, Clane forged a childhood, sometimes with, sometimes without her bong-puffing, Buddha-quoting, macrobiotic mother and her wild-haired, redneck father. The Hypocrisy of Disco is an honest, direct, and truly unforgettable tale, and a tribute to the resilience of youth.
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Amazing Book! October 17, 2007
BayAreaReader (BayArea_CA_USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
A beautiful book; clear, vivid descriptions and such a compelling story. The amazing thing is how the author manages to recount her bizarre childhood without ever slipping into recriminations or judgements about her rather odd parents. She lets the facts speak for themselves and they do so perfectly. Hypocrisy of Disco really captures a time and place, as seen through the eyes of an intelligent and sensitive young girl. Great! Highly recommend!
My sister wrote this! October 23, 2007
Ki Coale
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
But that doesn't mean I'm biased! This is an excellent and heartwrenching book. I always knew someone should write a book about our childhood, and I am so glad it was Clane - she is a brilliant writer with an honest voice.
She got it right November 6, 2007
Gwen Rosewater (Healdsburg, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm not a writer myself, but over the years many people have told me I should write a book about my hapless hippie upbringing. Well thank god, now I don't have to, because Clane Hayward has finally written the definitive hippie kid memoir, telling once and for all just what that experience was like. But beyond just capturing a particular time and place, Clane Hayward has, like Frank McCourt, conjured up an utterly authentic, haunting, and poetic childhood voice. Highly recommended.
Haud and the Pleasant, Dull Dalmatian April 16, 2008
Allison J. Simmons (Missouri City, Texas USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Wow. I read a lot of books, but this is the first one in a long time that I've read to the point of exhaustion (physical and emotional) and severe "pruniness" (bathtub is the only escape place with 3 young kids).
I finished it last night and couldn't stop laughing at the New Year's party scene. Absurdity/truth at its finest. One of those scenes you MUST read aloud to someone else. And has anyone ever in the history of literature described a dog as polite and pleasant? Just so good.
I am so hopeful that the author will continue her story. I can't imagine a straighter career than the armed forces. I would love to know how sweet Clanie finished out her childhood and even more so, if she ever found kindness and loving hands. Those hair washing scenes were heartbreaking. I've touched my kids more in the last two days than I usually do. I just squeeze them when they walk by me, remembering Clane's (and Haud's and Ki's) experiences.
This book will live at my house and not go to half-price books with the rest of the stacks. It's one of the rare ones that needs to stay close by.
Compelling and honest January 4, 2008
California Reader
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is brilliant, comic, heartbreaking, and always authentic. Clane Hayward is a gifted writer, and I highly recommend this book not only for the insights it gives to a unique time and place in our generation's history, but because it is such a compelling account of someone's personal journey.
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