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Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Slouching towards bethlehem ISBN: 0008284644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008284640 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Joan Didion`s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.
Автор: Didion Joan Название: Slouching Towards Bethlehem ISBN: 0374531382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374531386 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: 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. Joan Didion is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry," and "The Year of Magical Thinking." She lives in New York City. 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 district--all reflect how and why things were then, and are now, falling apart in America: "the center cannot hold," as Yeats had warned. An incisive look at contemporary life, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is still admired as a stylistic masterpiece. "Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever," as Joyce Carol Oates noted. "She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control." "A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."--Anne Tyler "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."--Dan Wakefield, " The New York Times Book Review" "The story between the lines of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is surely not so much 'California' as it is Joan Didion's] ability to make us share her passionate sense of it."--Alfred Kazin "A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."--Anne Tyler
Contents: I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" "John Wayne: A Love Song" "Where the Kissing Never Stops" "Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)" "7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38" "California Dreaming" "Marrying Absurd" "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" II. PERSONALS "On Keeping a Notebook" "On Self-Respect" "I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind" "On Morality" "On Going Home" III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND "Notes from a Native Daughter" "Letter from Paradise, 21 19' N., 157 52' W" "Rock of Ages" "The Seacoast of Despair" "Guaymas, Sonora" "Los Angeles Notebook" "Goodbye to All That"
Автор: Didion Joan Название: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays ISBN: 1250160650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250160652 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country."
More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and 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. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: " Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control."
