Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Essays (FSG Classics)
by Joan Didion
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“I love Slouching Towards Bethlehem so much. | I read over and over again, like three or four times a year. It’s so beautifully constructed. She’s so wise.”
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in About California, Most Recommended Books, and Nonfiction.
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America? particularly California?in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the n...
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Recommended by 5 sources and appears in About California, Most Recommended Books, and Nonfiction.
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“I love Slouching Towards Bethlehem so much. | I read over and over again, like three or four times a year. It’s so beautifully constructed. She’s so wise.”
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