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Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion.

Title
Slouching towards Bethlehem / Joan Didion.
Author
Didion, Joan
Publication
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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Additional Authors
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux publisher.
Description
xiv, 238 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
"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." --From back of book.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Hippies > California > San Francisco
  • California > Social life and customs > 20th century
Genre/Form
Essays
Note
  • Essays.
  • Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780374531386 (pbk.)
  • 0374531382 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008931946
OCLC
  • 216941707
  • SCSB-12902942
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library