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Didion, Joan Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Touchstone Books
New York Simon & Schuster Apr-79 671248065 N Paperback
Review&newline;&doublequote;In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country.&doublequote;--Dan Wakefield, The New York Times Book Review&newline;--This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;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, &doublequote;the center cannot hold.&doublequote; An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.&newline;&newline;Contents:&newline;&newline;I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND &newline;Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream&newline;John Wayne: A Love Song&newline;Where the Kissing Never Stops&newline;Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)&newline;7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38&newline;California Dreaming&newline;Marrying Absurd&newline;Slouching Towards Bethlehem&newline;&newline;II. PERSONALS&newline;On Keeping a Notebook&newline;On Self-Respect&newline;I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind&newline;On Morality&newline;On Going Home&newline;&newline;III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND&newline;Notes from a Native Daughter&newline;Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W&newline;Rock of Ages&newline;The Seacoast of Despair&newline;Guaymas, Sonora&newline;Los Angeles Notebook&newline;Goodbye to All That
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Didion, Joan The Last Thing He Wanted
Vintage 2-Sep-97 679752854 Paperback
Elena McMahon is a reporter for the Washington Post and the unlikely inheritor of her father's complex and secretive life as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. The year is 1984, and as she flies to an unnamed island off the coast of Costa Rica, she is oblivious to the spies, American military personnel, and the consequences of her father's errors that await her. She's also unprepared for the advances of Treat Morrison, an American diplomat whose service under six administrations has made him a crisis junkie. Treat narrates this story, offering a unique perspective on Elena, a woman who abandons one life for another. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Brilliantly written and flawlessly structured, Didion's first work of fiction since 1984's Democracy employs her trademark barbed-wire prose to tell a highly elliptical tale of political intrigue. Elena McMahon, a middle-aged woman of substantial wealth, is divorced and covering the 1984 presidential campaign for the Washington Post when she abruptly walks off her beat and goes to Florida to visit her ailing father. Soon, she has passively allowed herself to drift into a shady arms deal running between Florida and Central America, an enterprise that her father had set up but is physically incapable of seeing through. Didion takes risks in her choice of a nameless narrator, a writer who has only a peripheral knowledge of the people and events around which the story revolves. Indeed, the narrator is piecing together that story considerably after the fact. As a result, the characters are virtually ciphers: the narrator explicitly refuses to provide traditional motivation for their actions. The book is compulsively readable, however, an intellectual thriller that recalls Graham Greene?except that whereas Greene was concerned with the spirituality of desolation, Didion's characters operate in a spiritual void. The cold, detached tone is more than compensated for by the sharpness of Didion's prose and the artful suspense of her plot. This is a major work by one of the shrewdest observers of America's political and cultural life. 100,000 first printing; Random House Audio book. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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didion, Joan White Album
New York Simon & Schuster 19-Jun-79 671226851 N Hardcover
Review&newline;&doublequote;All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism.&doublequote;--Robert Towers, The New York Times Book Review&newline;&newline;&doublequote;Didion manges to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike movies, for instance, and Bishop James Pike) as interesting and suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration (Georgia O'Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota) . . . A timely and elegant collection.&doublequote;--The New Yorker &newline;&newline;&doublequote;Didion is an original journalistic talent who can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, graceful strokes.&doublequote;--The San Francisco Chronicle&newline;--This text refers to the Paperback edition. &newline;&newline;Book Description&newline;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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