Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Summary
This collection of essays takes the reader on a psychological tour of the intense, wayward, violent, not a little crazy America of the 1960s: surfers, students, deadheads and druggies; Joan Baez and John Wayne. Joan Didion has also written "Sentimental Journeys" and "The White Album".
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
"It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the GNP high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not..." "So physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate" that people tended to forget that her presence ran counter to their best interests, Joan Didion slipped herself into the heart of the Sixties Revolution, only to slip out again with this savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during those curious days. Now that some of the posturing and pronouncements of those times are being recycled, Didion's sobering reflections are timely once again: 'the future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780006545897 |
| ISBN 10 | 0006545890 |
| Title | Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
| Author | Joan Didion |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1993-01-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |