Where I Was from by Joan Didion
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic 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 her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Didion, Joan: - Nee en 1934 a Sacramento, en Californie, Joan Didion entre tres jeune comme redactrice au magazine Vogue, puis devient l'une des meilleures chroniqueuses de la scene politique et culturelle americaine. Ses nombreux romans et essais lui ont valu la reconnaissance unanime de la critique. Elle contribue regulierement au New Yorker et a la New York Review of Books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780679433323 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679433325 |
| Title | Where I Was from |
| Author | Joan Didion |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House Australia |
| Year published | 2003-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 226 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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