![]() ![]() ![]() Chapter 17: I Can’t Get That Monster out of My Mind.Chapter 13: Slouching Towards Bethlehem. ![]() Chapter 10: 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38.Chapter 8: Where the Kissing Never Stops.Chapter 6: Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream.Chapter 5: I LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND.In twenty essays, Didion takes readers on a tour of one of the most transformative decades in American history. She casts reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes and folk singer Joan Baez as characters in her portrayal of a country on fire. Slouching Toward Bethlehem is a true introduction to Didion's grace on the page, her acerbic wit, and her meticulous documentation of egregiously human experiences.įind yourself enthralled by the landscape she paints in hyperreal color, from the “misplaced children” dropping acid in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to the doorsteps of American extremity in Death Valley, Hawaii, and Las Vegas. A portrait of a country gripped by a deep generational divide, Didion documents the United States as it teeters on the edge of social change.Īuthor of widely-acclaimed journalistic and personal essays, this is Didion's first work of nonfiction, and her mastery of the form is already on full display. From one of literary nonfiction's preeminent voices comes Slouching Toward Bethlehem, an incisive collection of essays that chronicles the raucous cacophony of America in the 1960s. ![]()
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