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Live and Learn - Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the White Album, After Henry (Paperback)
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Live and Learn - Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the White Album, After Henry (Paperback)
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This comprehensive edition brings together for the first time three
seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan
Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental
Journeys. Prefaced with a new introduction by Joan Didion. Live and
Learn comprises three of the personal essay collections that
established Joan Didion as a major figure in the modern canon -
arranged in chronological order so that readers can appreciate not
only the qualities of the essays per se, but also their evolution
over time. It also includes a new introduction by Joan Didion
herself. The stylistic masterpiece Slouching Towards Bethlehem
(1968) has become a modern classic, capturing the mood of 1960s
America and especially the center of its counterculture,
California. The cornerstone essay, an extraordinary report on San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, sets the agenda for the rest of this
book - depicting and America where, in some way or another, things
are falling apart and "the center cannot hold". The White Album
(1979) is a syncopated, swirling mosaic of the 60s and 70s,
covering people and artifacts from the Black Panthers and the
Manson family to John Paul Getty's museum. Sentimental Journeys
(1992) shifts its perspective slightly to take in Vietnamese
refugee camps in Hong Kong, the Reagan campaign trail, and the
inequities of Los Angeles real estate. An important collection,
Live and Learn is the perfect one-stop primer on Joan Didion, and
an essential reference for readers old and new. It confirms the
power of this uniquely unbiased, moving writer, and showcases her
artful yet simple prose.
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Imprint: |
HarperPerennial
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2005 |
Authors: |
Joan Didion
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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Pages: |
592 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-720438-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
0-00-720438-8 |
Barcode: |
9780007204380 |
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