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The White Album (1979)

by Joan Didion

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Joan Didion is one special lady. I appreciate her honesty most of all in this book. ( )
  KristySP | Apr 21, 2013 |
took years to read every essay; some are so poignant and pointed that I till reread them
  FKarr | Apr 4, 2013 |
I've wanted to read Joan Didion since [b:The Year of Magical Thinking|7815|The Year of Magical Thinking|Joan Didion|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165644384s/7815.jpg|1659905] came out. However, that's apparently not a good one to start with. So I'm starting with this one, quite enjoying it so far, and planning on getting to The Year of Magical Thinking next.
10/20: Change of plans: [b:Slouching Towards Bethlehem|424|Slouching Towards Bethlehem Essays|Joan Didion|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71883A3CWNL._SL75_.gif|1844] is also amazing, according to multiple sources. So now that one is next, and then The Year of Magical Thinking. ( )
  cat-ballou | Apr 2, 2013 |
I'd read and enjoyed some of Didion's essays before, and it's good to hear that voice again -- that sardonic, incisive, precise, world-weary, world-wary, sensitive yet pleasantly sort of robotic voice. ( )
  nostalgebraist | Mar 31, 2013 |
joan is very annoying or her writing style is annoying but she has a style and she draws you in. ( )
  mahallett | May 9, 2011 |
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For Earl McGrath, and for Lois Wallace
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live. (The White Album)
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First published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Balck Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.

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