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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... tried to force myself to put through the call to the assistant district attorney. My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to ...
... tried to force myself to put through the call to the assistant district attorney. My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to ...
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... tried to graft those ways upon the land. The graft took in curious ways. This is the California where it is possible to live and die without ever eating an artichoke, without ever meeting a Catholic or a Jew. This is the California ...
... tried to graft those ways upon the land. The graft took in curious ways. This is the California where it is possible to live and die without ever eating an artichoke, without ever meeting a Catholic or a Jew. This is the California ...
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... trying to find a new life style , trying to find it in the only places they know to look : the movies and the newspapers . The case of Lucille Marie Maxwell Miller is a tabloid monument to that new life style . 11 Imagine Banyan Street ...
... trying to find a new life style , trying to find it in the only places they know to look : the movies and the newspapers . The case of Lucille Marie Maxwell Miller is a tabloid monument to that new life style . 11 Imagine Banyan Street ...
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... trying to save him and now what are they trying to do to me ? ” ” At 1:30 that afternoon , Sergeant William Paterson and Detectives Charles Callahan and Joseph Karr of the Central Homicide Division arrived at 8488 Bella Vista . " One of ...
... trying to save him and now what are they trying to do to me ? ” ” At 1:30 that afternoon , Sergeant William Paterson and Detectives Charles Callahan and Joseph Karr of the Central Homicide Division arrived at 8488 Bella Vista . " One of ...
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... trying to construct another version of what might have happened between 12:30 and 1:50 a.m. The hypothesis they would eventually present was based on the somewhat tortuous premise that Lucille Miller had undertaken a plan which failed ...
... trying to construct another version of what might have happened between 12:30 and 1:50 a.m. The hypothesis they would eventually present was based on the somewhat tortuous premise that Lucille Miller had undertaken a plan which failed ...
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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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