Slouching Towards Bethlehem: EssaysOpen Road Media, 21 de mar. de 2017 - 361 páginas The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature’s most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic. In twenty razor-sharp essays that redefined the art of journalism, National Book Award–winning author Joan Didion reports on a society gripped by a deep generational divide, from the “misplaced children” dropping acid in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district to Hollywood legend John Wayne filming his first picture after a bout with cancer. She paints indelible portraits of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and folk singer Joan Baez, “a personality before she was entirely a person,” and takes readers on eye-opening journeys to Death Valley, Hawaii, and Las Vegas, “the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements.” First published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been heralded by the New York Times Book Review as “a rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country” and named to Time magazine’s list of the one hundred best and most influential nonfiction books. It is the definitive account of a terrifying and transformative decade in American history whose discordant reverberations continue to sound a half-century later. |
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... California Dreaming Marrying Absurd Slouching Towards Bethlehem II PERSONALS On Keeping a Notebook On Self - Respect I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind On Morality On Going Home III About the Author Also by Joan Didion A Preface ...
... California Dreaming Marrying Absurd Slouching Towards Bethlehem II PERSONALS On Keeping a Notebook On Self - Respect I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind On Morality On Going Home III About the Author Also by Joan Didion A Preface ...
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... California of the subtropical twilights and the soft westerlies off the Pacific but a harsher California, haunted by the Mojave just beyond the mountains, devastated by the hot dry Santa Ana wind that comes down through the passes at ...
... California of the subtropical twilights and the soft westerlies off the Pacific but a harsher California, haunted by the Mojave just beyond the mountains, devastated by the hot dry Santa Ana wind that comes down through the passes at ...
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... California . But after a while the signs thin out on Carnelian Avenue , and the houses are no longer the bright pastels of the Springtime Home owners but the faded bungalows of the people who grow a few grapes and keep a few chickens ...
... California . But after a while the signs thin out on Carnelian Avenue , and the houses are no longer the bright pastels of the Springtime Home owners but the faded bungalows of the people who grow a few grapes and keep a few chickens ...
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... California Highway Patrol officers were completing their report, Lucille Miller was still sobbing and incoherent, for her husband had been asleep in the Volkswagen. “What will I tell the children, when there's nothing left, nothing left ...
... California Highway Patrol officers were completing their report, Lucille Miller was still sobbing and incoherent, for her husband had been asleep in the Volkswagen. “What will I tell the children, when there's nothing left, nothing left ...
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... California story . She was born on January 17 , 1930 , in Winnipeg , Manitoba , the only child of Gordon and Lily Maxwell , both schoolteachers and both dedicated to the Seventh - Day Adventist Church , whose members observe the Sabbath ...
... California story . She was born on January 17 , 1930 , in Winnipeg , Manitoba , the only child of Gordon and Lily Maxwell , both schoolteachers and both dedicated to the Seventh - Day Adventist Church , whose members observe the Sabbath ...
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A Love Song | |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem | |
On Keeping a Notebook | |
On SelfRespect | |
On Morality | |
Notes from a Native Daughter | |
Letter from Paradise 21 19 N 157 52 | |
Rock of Ages | |
Los Angeles Notebook | |
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