Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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Produktbeschreibung

Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 183g
• ISBN-13: 9780008284640
• ISBN-10: 0008284644
• Artikelnr.: 50049249

Autorenporträt

Joan Didion is one of America's most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
I. Life Styles in the Golden Land
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
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
II. Personals
On Keeping a Notebook
On Self-Respect
I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind
On Morality
On Going Home
III. Seven Places of the Mind
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