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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherTouchstone
ISBN-100671248065
ISBN-139780671248062
eBay Product ID (ePID)159685
Product Key Features
Publication Year1979
Book TitleSlouching Towards Bethlehem
TopicEssays
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary Collections
AuthorJoan Didion
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight1.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal814.54
SynopsisUniversally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Contents: I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND 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 II. PERSONALS On Keeping a Notebook On Self-Respect I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind On Morality On Going Home III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND 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