About this title: This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. Didion observes the dramas that explode as America goes into collective detox: the mother abandoning her five-year-old daughter on the central reservation of Interstate 5; Huey Newton and the Black Panthers preaching from their cells; students, in unconscious parody, simulating the disaffection of the 1960s. Didion hangs out with the Doors, parties with Janis Joplin, shops with the Manson clan, dines with Polanski and Sharon Tate, and goes to ...
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners. Spine has wear at edges. Dust jacket has some wear. read more
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Description: Very Good. 0671226851 Condition: VERY GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, cover wear, name written inside cover, light underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, etc. Overall, the book is in solid shape. This is a blanket description. Please e us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of your request). read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pocket Books
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780671474201ISBN:0671474200
Description: Near Fine with no DJ. 0671474200. Price in pencil first page.; A mass market paperback. Near fine. No DJ. Ucreased spine. Text clean and unmarked.; 221 pages. read more
Edition: 5th Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon And Schuster, New York
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780671226855ISBN:0671226851
Description: No Illustration. Very Good in Very Good jacket. EX-LIBRARY. EXPECTED MARKINGS AND ATTACHMENTS. DUST JACKET WRAPPED IN MYLAR. RED HALF-CLOTH COVER. INTERIOR PAGES HAVE SLIGHT STAINING. read more
Description: Very Good. 0671601032 Condition: VERY GOOD. (Book may have one or a combination of the following characteristics: former library book, cover wear, name written inside cover, light underlining/highlighting, remainder mark, etc. Overall, the book is in solid shape. This is a blanket description. Please e us if you require a specific, detailed description of the book condition. We will typically respond within one week of your request). read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, NY
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780671226855ISBN:0671226851
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First printing. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that has a bit of staining and some discolored spots on the front panel. Not priceclipped and no markings. read more
Edition: First edition. full number line
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1979
ISBN-13:9780671226855ISBN:0671226851
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. 222 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is oslid, tight, clean, square; former owner's name and inscription on inside ffep. read more
"Found this book while idly looking around in the free bin at the library. It is a collection of essays by Joan Didion from the late '60s and the first half of the seventies about such diverse topics as Bishop Pike from San Francisco, (who left the Episcopal Church to wander in the desert of Jordan) the Manson Family (Didion attended the trial and helped Linda Kasabian buy a dress for court) The Doors, (whom she was acquainted with in Los Angeles during 1968) and observations she makes of Hollywood, New York City and Hawaii. Disjointed and erratic, it is overall a little disappointing only because there are too few gems and alot of white, upper-class twaddle. Didion is rich, and went through the '60s with rental cars and room service. I loved her essay on Bogota, however, where she spent part of 1973. She is a great name-dropper and knew just about everybody that was anybody."
"Didion writes perfect essays. The opening, eponymous essay in this collection considers writing about one's own history as a necessary pathology. The pieces that follow are all excellent. Particularly good are "The Women's Movement," which takes a scalpel to the popularization of feminism, extracting the moments in which political insight morphs into domestic fantasy, and the short "On the Morning After the Sixties," in which she observes of her generation, the last to attend college before the 1960s, "I think now that we were the last generation to identify with adults." Devastatingly intelligent."
"This is like the morning-after companion to Slouching Towards Bethlehem: the 1970s have arrived, even though much of the book is spent in the late 1960s. Didion talks, among other things, about the Manson murders. She is in her sister-in-law's pool when someone calls to tell them about the murders; after that, she relates the subsequent phone calls full of misinformation (no instant news from the Internet!), which she sums up in a chilling way: "I remember that no one was surprised.""
"I fell in love with the first sentence. "People tell stories in order to live." I read this in Tar magazine on a plane to NYC and its one of those pieces that inspires to the extent that you can only go back to it when the time is right. It has such a perfectly and beautifully stated atmospheric quality; i can only dream of writing like Didion. It is one of my favorite forms of writing (piece-y patchwork that keeps layering and connecting further and further, there is an overall meaning and everything fits but it isn't always clear how or why, reminds me of life). This is why I love non-fiction."
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