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Joan Didion is a cultural icon and this is where it all began. This collection of nonfiction is exactly as you’d expect from Didion, detailing a specific and fascinating age in California when John Wayne was a mainstay. It’s billiant reading, gorgeously told and nothing short of unmissable.
Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the "foundational text" of her oeuvre (New York Times). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.
More than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion-one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era-captures her focus on time and place at a unique moment in history. Here, Didion ...
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