Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

ISBN: 9781250160652
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Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country."

More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: " Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control."

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Didion, Joan
  • ISBN: 9781250160652
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 5.80 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 384
  • Publication Year: 2017
Language: English

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  • Disappointed.

    Connie C. - 5 years ago

    Did not care for her tone or demeanor. She looked down on her subjects.

  • Important modern essayist

    Mitzi S. - 6 years ago

    Her essays, though set in the 60's and 70's, discuss the currents of change and dissolution in modern American society, relevant topics for today. This relevancy pushes her to the forefront of American writers today. #SummerReading