Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Didion, Joan
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374266360
- ISBN 13
- 9780374266363
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Simi Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1968-06-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.1000 8.1000 5.5000. Boldly signed by Joan Didion inside the front free end page. Stated first printing, 1968 on the copyright page. A copy that's been read. Some wear and creases to the jacket. There is a sticker on the front of the jacket. Pages are tanning.
Synopsis
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion and mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006). The title essay describes Didion's impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center.
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- Bookseller
- Schwabe Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0003041366
- Title
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Author
- Didion, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0374266360
- ISBN 13
- 9780374266363
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- 558
- Date Published
- 1968-06-01
- Size
- 1.1000 8.1000 5.5000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book;
- X weight
- 0.8500 lb
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