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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1   shousers | Feb 26, 2008 |  By day, just another white-lipped, red-eyed, fragile poet. But by night, off come the weaknesses and Didion flexes her iron fist - confident, painfully articulate, and incisive! Special gold stars go to the last segments of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", the entirety of "On Self Respect", and also all of "Goodbye to All That." I want to xerox them en masse and roll around in them. Or, in a less creepy world, drop them from planes like evangelical napalm! Either one works. http://nohablo.vox.com/library/post/s... (  )1 nohablo | Oct 8, 2007 | essays  IraSchor | Apr 14, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0374521727, Paperback)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.Contents:I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND Some Dreamers of the Golden DreamJohn Wayne: A Love SongWhere the Kissing Never StopsComrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38California DreamingMarrying AbsurdSlouching Towards BethlehemII. PERSONALSOn Keeping a NotebookOn Self-RespectI Can't Get That Monster out of My MindOn MoralityOn Going HomeIII. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MINDNotes from a Native DaughterLetter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' WRock of AgesThe Seacoast of DespairGuaymas, SonoraLos Angeles NotebookGoodbye to All That (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I've read Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and A Book of Common Prayer and wasn't impressed with either. This collection of essays is different, perhaps because they were written while she was younger and angsty. So far, it's been a good read. (