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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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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