Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were In her non-fiction work, Joan Didion not only describes the subject at hand - her younger self loving and leaving New York, the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion - but also offers a broader vision of the world, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
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Book Details
Title
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Imprint
Fourth Estate Ltd
Product Form
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Genre
Literary Collections
ISBN13
9780008284640
Book Category
Biographies, Memoirs and General Non-Fiction Books