Where I Was From by Joan Didion

Where I Was From by Joan Didion

Fromthe bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking- In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion-a native Californian-reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.

Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California'sethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.

Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.

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ISBN 13	9780679752868
ISBN 10	0679752862
Titel	Where I Was From
Autor	Joan Didion
Serie	Vintage International
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Random House USA Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-09-14
Seitenanzahl	240
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.