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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... things fall apart : I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months , had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act , that the world as I had understood it no longer existed . If I ...
... things fall apart : I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months , had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act , that the world as I had understood it no longer existed . If I ...
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... things falling apart; that is a large and rather presumptuous notion, and many of these pieces are small and personal. But since I am neither a camera eye nor much given to writing pieces which do not interest me, whatever I do write ...
... things falling apart; that is a large and rather presumptuous notion, and many of these pieces are small and personal. But since I am neither a camera eye nor much given to writing pieces which do not interest me, whatever I do write ...
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... tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. I LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND Some Dreamers of.
... tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. I LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND Some Dreamers of.
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... thing she knew the car was on the embankment, quite near the edge of the retaining wall, and flames were shooting up behind her. She does not remember jumping out. She does remember prying up a stone with which she broke the window next ...
... thing she knew the car was on the embankment, quite near the edge of the retaining wall, and flames were shooting up behind her. She does not remember jumping out. She does remember prying up a stone with which she broke the window next ...
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... things , " Lucille Miller remembered telling Arthwell Hayton in the parking lot of Harold's Club in Fontana after lunch one day ) and there were the notes , the sweet exchanges : " Hi Sweetie Pie ! You are my cup of tea !! Happy ...
... things , " Lucille Miller remembered telling Arthwell Hayton in the parking lot of Harold's Club in Fontana after lunch one day ) and there were the notes , the sweet exchanges : " Hi Sweetie Pie ! You are my cup of tea !! Happy ...
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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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