Ebook: Slouching towards Bethlehem: essays
Author: Didion Joan
- Tags: American essays, American essays--20th century, Manners and customs, Electronic books, American essays -- 20th century, California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century, California
- Series: Picador modern classics
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Open Road Media
- City: California
- Edition: First Picador Modern Classics edition
- Language: English
- epub
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,...