Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America— particularly California—in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes,...
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The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America— particularly California—in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374531386 (0374531382)
ASIN: 374531382
Publish date: October 28th 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
Journalism,
Politics,
Short Stories
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