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S'està carregant… Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (1968)de Joan Didion
  
No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. One of my greatest inspirations. I can only hope one day to write with the calm, assurance and grace as Ms. Didion. (  ) Smokler | Jan 3, 2021 |  On the surface, the subjects covered in this collection of essays might seem dated. Lucille Miller's murder of her husband in San Barnardino, CA. Who is Lucille Miller? John Wayne, finishing up a movie while recovering from lung cancer. Joan Baez and the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence. Howard Hughes. The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Haight-Asbury in 1967. But the writing doesn't feel dated. The writing feels like it is from just yesterday, or perhaps today. Joan Didion describes times and places that no longer exist. She doesn't describe as a historian; she describes the feel and smell and sense of time and place; she describes what is so hard to get once it is gone. Sacramento, what it once was that a resident today will never know. Hawaii, what it was when it was controlled by a few elite families. Alcatraz, after it was closed but before it became a tourist attraction. Working and living in NYC in your 20's. She captures moments and places in time for which we often depend today on film but does it in ways that even film struggles to capture. (  ) afkendrick | Oct 24, 2020 | Interesting read, I enjoyed the writing, but I felt the book needed something to pull it together. (  ) Happenence | Oct 2, 2020 | Old school but really refreshing, intelligent but not dry, witty but not smug. Surprisingly still relevant today. Interesting to read and work out where she was in relation to the events and places she writes about. A kind of friendly impartiality coupled with an incisive perception. It’s easy to see how she influenced both men and women of her time and later. You will not regret reading Joan Didion ( ) Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 | Bothering hippies interviewing white people West Coast style smugness. (  ) Eggpants | Jun 25, 2020 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The "dazzling" and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature's most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic. In twenty razor-sharp essays that redefined the art of journalism, National Book Award-winning author Joan Didion reports on a society gripped by a deep generational divide, from the "misplaced children" dropping acid in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to Hollywood legend John Wayne filming his first picture after a bout with cancer. She paints indelible portraits of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and folk singer Joan Baez, "a personality before she was entirely a person," and takes readers on eye-opening journeys to Death Valley, Hawaii, and Las Vegas, "the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements." First published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been heralded by the New York Times Book Review as "a rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country" and named to Time magazine's list of the one hundred best and most influential nonfiction books. It is the definitive account of a terrifying and transformative decade in American history whose discordant reverberations continue to sound a half-century later. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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