{"product_id":"slouching-towards-bethlehem","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCelebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and 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. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arvida Book Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720468955367,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/slouching.jpg?v=1768512661","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/slouching-towards-bethlehem","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}