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Slouching towards Bethlehem : essays / Joan Didion.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250160652
- ISBN: 1250160650
- Physical Description: xxv, 354 pages ; 15 cm.
- Edition: First Picador Modern Classics Edition.
- Publisher: New York : Picador Modern Classics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Copyright: ©1968.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Some dreamers of the golden dream -- John Wayne : a love song -- Where the kissing never stops -- Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.) -- 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 -- California dreaming -- Marrying absurd -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that. |
| Summary, etc.: | American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California. |
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| Subject: | California > Social life and customs > 20th century. Hippies > California > San Francisco. |
| Genre: | Essays. |
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| Main | 814.54 D562s 2017 (Text) | 31307023520291 | Non Fiction | Available | - |
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem : Essays
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem , is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country." More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: "[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control."
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