238 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Her second book and first book of non-fiction. Twenty essays about California and New York in the sixties. Fine book except for a tiny bit of fading to the top edge in a fine dust jacket which is price clipped. A beautiful copy!

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Title

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Publisher

Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York

Publication Date

1968

Language

English

ISBN 10

0374266360

ISBN 13

9780374266363

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Twenty essays on such diverse topics as John Wayne, the Haight-Ashbury culture, and the Newport mansions

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"In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful.... A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country." --Dan Wakefield, The New York Times Book Review

"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

"The story between the lines of Slouching Towards Bethlehem is surely not so much 'California' as it is [Didion's] ability to make us share her passionate sense of it." --Alfred Kazin

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