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Where I Was From (Paperback, New ed)
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Where I Was From (Paperback, New ed)
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List price R311
Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
You Save R29 (9%)
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A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most
influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book,
Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history -
and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's words, "represents an
exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in
which I grew up, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a
part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them
only obliquely." The book is a haunting narrative of how her own
family moved west with the frontier from the birth of her
great-great-great-great-great-grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to
the death of her mother on the edge of the Pacific in 2001; of how
the wagon-train stories of hardship and abandonment and endurance
created a culture in which survival would seem the sole virtue.
Didion examines how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of
the California settlement led to the California we know today - a
state mortgaged first to the railroad, then to the aerospace
industry, and overwhelmingly to the federal government. Joan
Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute
interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive
questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely
intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one
of America's greatest writers.
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