Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion.
A half-century after its initial publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains the essential portrait of America--and California in particular--during the sixties. The remarkable debut essay collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, it explores such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room; and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Dan Wakefield wrote in The New York Times Book Review, 'In her portraits of people, [Didion] is not out to expose but to understand...[She] makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful'"--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374531386
- ISBN: 0374531382
- Physical Description: xvi, 238 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [2008]
- Copyright: ©1968
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Life styles of 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 -- Personals. On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- 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. |
| Target Audience Note: | 1270L Lexile |
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| Subject: | Hippies > California > San Francisco. California > Social life and customs > 20th century. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century. |
| Genre: | Essays. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | 814.54 DID (Text) | 33114016200727 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/19/2025 |
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