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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, United States Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc 31 Oct 2008Description: 238 pages Paperback 141 x 209 x 20mm | 245gISBN:
  • 9780374531386
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 814.54
Summary: 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.
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Senior Library F5 Essay / Speech Fiction DID 1 Available Essay / Speech 1402112239
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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. Essay / Speech

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