Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Essays

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Publisher Description

The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times).

Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature’s most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic.
 
In twenty razor-sharp essays that redefined the art of journalism, National Book Award–winning author Joan Didion reports on a society gripped by a deep generational divide, from the “misplaced children” dropping acid in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district to Hollywood legend John Wayne filming his first picture after a bout with cancer. She paints indelible portraits of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and folk singer Joan Baez, “a personality before she was entirely a person,” and takes readers on eye-opening journeys to Death Valley, Hawaii, and Las Vegas, “the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements.”
 
First published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been heralded by the New York Times Book Review as “a rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country” and named to Time magazine’s list of the one hundred best and most influential nonfiction books. It is the definitive account of a terrifying and transformative decade in American history whose discordant reverberations continue to sound a half-century later.

 

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2017
March 21
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
361
Pages
PUBLISHER
Open Road Media
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
3.5
MB

Customer Reviews

ErinMarieee ,

So Good

I wish I could climb into this book and live inside of it. Didion’s masterful use of language creates a vivid and compelling depiction of life in 1960s California. The book is rich with details that make a good story yet lacks all of the unnecessary frills that often lose the attention or interest of the reader. I could not recommend this book more.

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