Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 814.54 D556 | Available | 33111005772153 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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."
Essays.
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Life styles of the golden land. 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 -- Personals. On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Seven places of the mind. Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21À19' N., 157À52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that.