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by Joan Didion
About 43 pages (12,811 words)
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem is a collection of essays by Joan Didion. The essays range in topic from murder to hippies, and from the meaning of self-respect to the existence of morality in the modern world. Each essay is personal, full of insights and opinions. Each essay is a self-contained commentary on life, on lifestyles, and on life's expectations based on the time they were written, the 1960s. It is a collection that will cause the reader to think, whether the reader agrees with Didion's opinions or not. (read more)
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: John Wayne: A Love Song
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: Where the Kissing Never Stops
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A (M.-L.)
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38,
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: California Dreaming,
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land, Marrying Absurd:
      Part 1, Life Styles in the Golden Land: Slouching Toward Bethlehem,
      Part 2, Personals: On Keeping a Notebook
      Part 2, Personals: On Self-Respect
      Part 2, Personals: I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind
      Part 2, Personals: On Morality
      Part 2, Personals: On Going Home
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Notes from a Native Daughter
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Letter from Paradise, 21' 19' N., 157' 52' W.
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Rock of Ages
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: The Seacoast of Despair
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Guaymas, Sonora
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Los Angeles Notebook
      Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Goodbye to All That

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