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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Didion, Joan
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968. Signed by Joan Didion on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Nancy with thanks for enabling me to come to Philadelphia [signed] Joan Didion Nov. 23 '73". First edition, third printing. xviii, 238 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Fine unclipped dust jacket. A collection of autobiographical essays on California in the sixties; the author's first nonfiction book.
Synopsis
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006). The title essay describes Didion's impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center.
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140943782
- Title
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Author
- Didion, Joan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- signed
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