Collected Essays
β Scribed by Didion, Joan
- Book ID
- 110377851
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504052030
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β¦ Synopsis
Three essential works that redefined the art of journalism by "one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers" (The New York Times).
In these masterpieces of razor-sharp reportage, the National Book Awardβwinning and New York Timesβbestselling author proves herself one of the premier essayists of the twentieth century, "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review).
Slouching Towards Bethlehem: America in the 1960sβa pivotal era of social change and generational divide. Here is Joan Didion on the "misplaced children" of Haight-Ashbury as well as John Wayne in Hollywood; folk singer Joan Baez and reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes; the extremes of both Death Valley and Las Vegas. Named to Time magazine's list of the one hundred best and most influential nonfiction books, this is "a rare...
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