Didion was a student at Berkeley in the 1950s and is back teaching there in 1975 when she reads about Paul Christian shooting his daughter, Janet, and Congressman Wendell Omura. Janet survives; Omura does not. One headline reads: Victor Family Touched by Island Tragedy.
In this chapter, we encounter the effects of the strange point-of-view technique that Didion uses in this.....
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