Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Author: Joan Didion

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780008284640
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
  • : 4th Estate GB
  • : 0.185
  • : December 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : 19.99
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  • : Joan Didion
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9780008284640

Description

This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room. Taking its title from W. B. Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," the essays in Slouching Towards Bethlehem all reflect, in one way or another, that "the center cannot hold."

Author description

JOAN DIDION is the author of five novels and nine books of nonfiction, including The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. Born in Sacramento, California, Didion now lives in New York City.