Title:
Slouching towards Bethlehem : essays
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Edition:
First Picador Modern Classics edition.
Publication Date:
2017
1968
Publication Information:
New York : Picador Modern Classics, 2017.
©1968
Physical Description:
xxv, 354 pages ; 15 cm.
ISBN:
9781250160652
Abstract:
American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.
Contents:
Some dreamers of the golden dream -- John Wayne : a love song -- Where the kissing never stops -- Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.) -- 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 -- California dreaming -- Marrying absurd -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that.
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Language:
English
