Title: "Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties"
Author: Robert Stone
Publisher: ecco
Pages: 229 pages
Price: $25.95
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In a nutshell: Stone has written a brilliant memoir about the '60s. Enmeshed in the beatnik generation, drugs and all, he was lucky enough to emerge unscathed. He narrates a delicious piece of social history with unmistakable eloquence and writes about overcoming brain surgery in 1963 (before CAT scans) and about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward starring in a film made from his first novel, "WUSA," which he describes as akin to "an indifferent episode of 'Matlock."' And on one page, he takes a strange and inaccurate slap at Joseph Smith.