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Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats.
- Joan Didion
- 1968
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.
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Oct 28, 2008 · 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.”
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- Joan Didion
- Joan Didion
Her essays not only describe the subject at hand—the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion—but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own. AMAZON. WALMART.
Nov 7, 2017 · 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.”
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Joan Didion. Macmillan, 1990 - Literary Collections - 237 pages. "A half-century after its initial publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem...
Jul 30, 2022 · slouching towards bethlehem. by. joan didion. Publication date. 1968. Publisher. dell publishing co., inc. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
