{"product_id":"where-i-was-from-a-memoir","title":"Where I was From: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNotes to John: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn this \"arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Baltimore Sun\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDidion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhere I Was From \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49214513643771,"sku":null,"price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/8745\/4385\/files\/Image_84f7bd47-db13-47f1-a330-dd410f89751a.jpg?v=1787492596","url":"https:\/\/shopaprikose.com\/products\/where-i-was-from-a-memoir","provider":"Aprikose","version":"1.0","type":"link"}