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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Didion, Joan
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine copy
- ISBN 10
- 0374531382
- ISBN 13
- 9780374531386
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine copy. 2008. Later prt.. softcover. 8vo, 238 pp. .
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
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS109665I
- Title
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
- Author
- Didion, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy
- Edition
- Later prt.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0374531382
- ISBN 13
- 9780374531386
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Essays;
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