{"product_id":"slouching-towards-bethlehem-essays","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"truncated-text js-truncated-text expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-content rte js-overview-body two-columns\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the “foundational text” of her oeuvre (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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 \u003ci\u003eSlouching\u003c\/i\u003e has become a totem for readers “who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self” (\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e). “In her portraits of people,” writes the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\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 (\u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) and as a classic of New Journalism, \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e is Didion at her finest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Raincoast Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49197551943931,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/8745\/4385\/files\/IMG_1058.webp?v=1787171937","url":"https:\/\/shopaprikose.com\/fr\/products\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-essays","provider":"Aprikose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}