Description
Joan Didion's seminal 1968 collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, offers a piercing look at California during the tumultuous 1960s. Through a series of keenly observed essays, Didion navigates the Golden State's landscape, revealing a society grappling with shifting values and fractured identities. She captures the era's pervasive sense of unease, exploring the lives of individuals from ordinary citizens to counterculture figures, all searching for meaning in a world that often feels alienating and surreal. Didion's unflinching prose dissects the illusions of the American Dream, exposing the underlying anxieties and existential malaise that defined a generation.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Oct 1, 1990
238 pages
ISBN: 9780374521721
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First Published
1968
Language
eng
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