This document provides information about the book "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion. It is a collection of nonfiction essays that portray America, especially California, in the 1960s. The book focuses on subjects like John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up as a girl in California, and captures the essence of the counterculture movement in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It remains an essential portrait of America in the 1960s decades after its initial publication.
This document provides information about the book "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion. It is a collection of nonfiction essays that portray America, especially California, in the 1960s. The book focuses on subjects like John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up as a girl in California, and captures the essence of the counterculture movement in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It remains an essential portrait of America in the 1960s decades after its initial publication.
This document provides information about the book "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion. It is a collection of nonfiction essays that portray America, especially California, in the 1960s. The book focuses on subjects like John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up as a girl in California, and captures the essence of the counterculture movement in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. It remains an essential portrait of America in the 1960s decades after its initial publication.
By Joan Didion Farrar, Straus and Giroux 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. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on 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. Farrar, Straus and Giroux