Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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.
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