Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays by Joan Didion
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
$17.00
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Becky says: This book perfectly captures the essence of California in the 60's, and somehow makes me nostalgic for a place and time I never experienced. My favorite essays were "Some Dreamers of the Golden Land" and "On Keeping a Notebook."


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."

Description

Staff Recommends

Becky says: This book perfectly captures the essence of California in the 60's, and somehow makes me nostalgic for a place and time I never experienced. My favorite essays were "Some Dreamers of the Golden Land" and "On Keeping a Notebook."


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."

ISBN
9780374531386
Publication Date
October 28, 2008
Binding
Paperback
Item Condition
New
Language
English
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Pages
256
Series
FSG Classics
Keywords
Literary Collections | Essays
SKU
9780374531386