Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Artikelnummer:
9780374531386
Veröffentlichungsdatum:
2008
Einband:
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.10.2008
Seiten:
238
Autor:
Joan Didion
Gewicht:
236 g
Format:
208x138x15 mm
Serie:
FSG Classics
Sprache:
Englisch
Langbeschreibung
Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country."More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: "[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control."