Joan Didion: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition
- Publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 07/2026
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780374622411
- Item number:
- 12631630
- Volume:
- 256 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 210 x 137 mm
- Thickness:
- 25 mm
- Release date:
- 7.7.2026
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of Slouching Towards Bethlehem |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Gebunden | EUR 22.99* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,, Englisch | EUR 13.96* |
Blurb
The essential portrait of America in the sixties, by the acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking.
More than a half century after its publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains an essential portrait of America-and California in particular-during the sixties. This collection, which was Didion's nonfiction debut, is a bold announcement of one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era and includes pieces exploring such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room; and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. The power of Didion's essays only grows over time, owing to her stature as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control" (The New York Times Book Review).
Biography
Joan Didion, geboren 1934 in Sacramento, studierte Literatur in Berkeley und arbeitete als freie Journalistin für zahlreiche große amerikanische Zeitungen. Sie war u. a. Herausgeberin der Vogue und hat vier Romane sowie zahlreiche Essaybände veröffentlicht. 2005 erhielt sie den National Book Award.
