Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays - Rilegato

Didion, Joan

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ISBN 10: 1250160650 ISBN 13: 9781250160652

Casa editrice: Picador USA, 2017

Riassunto

Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.

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.”

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L'autore:

Joan Didion is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, as well as several screenplays written with her late husband, John Gregory Dunne. Her books include The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and The Year of Magical Thinking, for which she received the National Book Award. She lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Picador USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1250160650
• ISBN 13: 9781250160652
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 354