{"product_id":"macmillan-publishers-slouching-towards-bethlehem-essays","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem Book by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJoan Didion’s first work of nonfiction,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the “foundational text” of her oeuvre (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion―one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era―captures her focus on time and place at a unique moment in history. Here, Didion explores people and subjects such as John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up in California, the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, and the birth of American counterculture. Didion’s work in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has become a totem for readers “who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). “In her portraits of people,” writes the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “Didion is not out to expose but to understand.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and as a classic of New Journalism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Didion at her finest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePaperback. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e256 pages. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5 1\/2\" x 8 1\/4\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262665675057,"sku":"Books","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0065\/4842\/2709\/files\/goldenrulebooksnewfinals.jpg?v=1781282819","url":"https:\/\/shopgoldenrule.com\/products\/macmillan-publishers-slouching-towards-bethlehem-essays","provider":"GOLDEN RULE GALLERY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}