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Slouching towards Bethlehem

"It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not." Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.

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  • "A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA."
  • "American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California."
  • ""It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not." Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece."@en
  • ""In essay after essay, Didion captures the dislocation of the 1960s, the disorientation of a country shredding itself apart with social change. Her essays not only describe the subject at hand - the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion - but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own."--BOOK JACKET."@en
  • "More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold.""@en

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  • "History"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Anthologie"

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  • "Slouching towards Bethlehem"
  • "Slouching towards Bethlehem"@en
  • "Wo die Küsse niemals enden Essays"
  • "Slouching towards bethlehem"
  • "Stunde der Bestie Essays"
  • "Slouching towards Bethlehem [essays]"
  • "Slouching towards Betlehem"
  • "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
  • "Slouching towards Bethlehem : [essays]"@en
  • "Wo die Küsse niemals enden : Essays"

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