Slouching towards Bethlehem
Subtitle: essays
By: Joan Didion
Edition: First Picador modern classics edition.
Series: Picador modern classics
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781250160652
Subjects: Social life and customs; Hippies
Description: 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.
Notes: "First published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Some dreamers of the golden dream --; title: John Wayne : a love song --; title: Where the kissing never stops --; title: Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. -- (M.-L.); title: 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 --; title: California dreaming --; title: Marrying absurd --; title: Slouching towards Bethlehem --; title: On keeping a notebook --; title: On self-respect --; title: I can't get that monster out of my mind --; title: On morality --; title: On going home --; title: Notes from a native daughter --; title: Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W --; title: Rock of ages --; title: The seacoast of despair --; title: Guaymas, Sonora --; title: Los Angeles notebook --; title: Goodbye to all that.