Full name: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

Author: Joan Didion Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9780440080275 0440080274

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. Similar books: The White Album by Joan Didion How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace After Henry by Joan Didion Living Out Loud by Anna Quindlen A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion Silk Parachute by John McPhee Alibis by Andre Aciman The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem The Patch by John McPhee Feel Free by Zadie Smith