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  Slouching Towards Bethlehem (FSG Classics) (Paperback) By (author) Joan Didion

  

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  Short Description for Slouching Towards BethlehemThe 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 nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel...
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  • Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Published: 28 October 2008
  • Format: Paperback 238 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Essays | Society & Culture: General
  • ISBN 13: 9780374531386 ISBN 10: 0374531382
  • Sales rank: 8,889

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Full description for Slouching Towards Bethlehem

• 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 nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.