Download The White Album by Joan Didion PDF
2017
Title | The White Album by Joan Didion |
---|---|
Authors | Joan Didion |
Genres | Prose: Non-fiction Literary Essays Cultural Studies Social & Cultural History |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Australia |
ISBN | 9780008284688 |
Annotation. This comprehensive edition brings together three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental Journeys. WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES IN ORDER TO LIVE Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys dresses with Charlie Manson's girls, and gravitates towards biker movies 'because there on screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times'. She and her reader emerge, cauterized, from this devastating tour of the myths and realities of that age of self-discovery into the harsh light of the morning after...
More Books You May Like

Fire and Fury (The Trump Trilogy #1)
The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely mesmerising. Now, thanks to his de...

Fast Asleep : How to get a really good night's rest
'I read this eagerly because I am desperate for tips on how to sleep better. It is based around the revolutionary idea t...

Fake Law by The Secret Barrister
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported b...

The Right Player
From bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes a sexy, hilarious, opposites-attract sports romance set in the lively city o...

The Last Emperox
Can they escape the end of an empire? Entire star systems, and billions of people, are about to be stranded. The pathway...

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Two of the computer industry's best-selling authors and lecturers return with a new edition of the software management b...