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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... Street first , because Banyan is where it happened . The way to Banyan is to drive west from San Bernardino out Foothill Boulevard , Route 66 : past the Santa Fe switching yards , the Forty Winks Motel . Past the motel that is nineteen ...
... Street first , because Banyan is where it happened . The way to Banyan is to drive west from San Bernardino out Foothill Boulevard , Route 66 : past the Santa Fe switching yards , the Forty Winks Motel . Past the motel that is nineteen ...
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... Street there is no light at all, and no sound except the wind in the eucalyptus and a muffled barking of dogs. There may be a kennel somewhere, or the dogs may be coyotes. Banyan Street was the route Lucille Miller took home from the ...
... Street there is no light at all, and no sound except the wind in the eucalyptus and a muffled barking of dogs. There may be a kennel somewhere, or the dogs may be coyotes. Banyan Street was the route Lucille Miller took home from the ...
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... street where there are always tricycles and revolving credit and dreams about bigger houses, better streets. That was 1957. By the summer of 1964 they had achieved the bigger house on the better street and the familiar accouterments of ...
... street where there are always tricycles and revolving credit and dreams about bigger houses, better streets. That was 1957. By the summer of 1964 they had achieved the bigger house on the better street and the familiar accouterments of ...
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... Street, Cork Miller appeared to be asleep. There is some confusion in Lucille Miller's mind about what happened between 12:30 a.m., when the fire broke out, and 1:50 a.m., when it was reported. She says that she was driving east on ...
... Street, Cork Miller appeared to be asleep. There is some confusion in Lucille Miller's mind about what happened between 12:30 a.m., when the fire broke out, and 1:50 a.m., when it was reported. She says that she was driving east on ...
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... Street and talked to the Highway Patrol officers . A third time Harold Lance returned alone , and when he came back he said to Lucille Miller , " O.K .... you don't talk any more . " When Lucille Miller was arrested the next afternoon ...
... Street and talked to the Highway Patrol officers . A third time Harold Lance returned alone , and when he came back he said to Lucille Miller , " O.K .... you don't talk any more . " When Lucille Miller was arrested the next afternoon ...
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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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