The book comprises three sections: Life Styles in the Golden Land Personals and Seven Places of the Mind. There are some standout pieces here, many of which would stand up to a second or third reading – I hope to give you a flavour of them in this review. It’s a perceptive, erudite collection, piercing in its ability to capture a certain time and cultural mood, reflective in its observations on the social context of the day. Published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem brings together twenty of Didion’s essays, mostly articles that were originally written for magazines between 19. I’ve already written about three of this writer’s books: her debut, Run River her seminal novel, Play It As It Lays and, probably my favourite so far, her remarkable memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. Longstanding readers of this blog may recall my admiration for Joan Didion’s work, both her fiction and her non-fiction pieces.
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