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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Joan Didion

207 pages

About this book

American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.

Themes
Dark & BroodingMelancholic & NostalgicThought-ProvokingWhat Does It All Mean?Quietly DevastatingDisillusionment with American mythsFragility of social orderAlienation in paradise
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