Slouching Towards BethlehemMacmillan, 1990 - 238 páginas "A half-century after its initial publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains the essential portrait of America--and California in particular--during the sixties. The remarkable debut essay collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, it explores such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room; and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Dan Wakefield wrote in The New York Times Book Review, 'In her portraits of people, [Didion] is not out to expose but to understand...[She] makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful'"--Back cover. |
Conteúdo
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream | 3 |
A Love Song | 29 |
Where the Kissing Never Stops | 42 |
Comrade Laski C P U S A M L | 61 |
Romaine Los Angeles 38 | 67 |
California Dreaming | 73 |
Marrying Absurd | 79 |
On Keeping a Notebook | 131 |
On SelfRespect | 142 |
Cant Get That Monster out of My Mind | 149 |
On Morality | 157 |
On Going Home | 164 |
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