![]() "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. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever," as Joyce Carol Oates noted. "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. 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.Īn incisive look at contemporary life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem is still admired as a stylistic masterpiece. 5, 1934, dies at 87 from Parkinsons disease at her New York apartment on Dec. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joan Didion, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' 'Slouching. Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. ![]()
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