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Author:

Didion, Joan.

Title:

Slouching towards Bethlehem : essays / Joan Didion.

Edition:

First Picador Modern Classics edition.

Publisher:

Picador Modern Classics,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xxv, 354 pages ; 15 cm.

Subject:

California--Social life and customs--20th century.
Hippies--San Francisco.--San Francisco.
Essays.

Contents:

Goodbye to all that. John Wayne : a love song -- Where the kissing never stops -- Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.) -- 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 -- California dreaming -- Marrying absurd -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that.

Summary:

American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.

Series:

Picador modern classics

ISBN:

1250160650
9781250160652

OCLC:

(OCoLC)973120064

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)