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Didion, Joan, author.

Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion.

Paperback edition.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

©1968

xiv, 238 pages ; 21 cm

"This work focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture."--Back of book

FSG classics

FSG classics.

Hippies -- California -- San Francisco.

Essays -- 20th century.

California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.

United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

Essays.

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, publisher.

Essays.

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

Life styles of the golden land. Some dreamers of the golden dream -- John Wayne : a love song -- Where the kissing never stops -- Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.) -- 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 -- California dreaming -- Marrying absurd -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Personals. On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Seven places of the mind. Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that.

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