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Slouching towards Bethlehem

Didion, Joan (author.).

Summary: "This work 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."--Back of book.

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  • ISBN: 9780374531386
  • ISBN: 0374531382
  • Physical Description: print
    xiv, 238 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Edition: Paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Essays.
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.
Formatted Contents Note: Life styles of the golden land. Some dreamers of the golden dream -- John Wayne : a love song -- Where the kissing never stops -- Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.) -- 7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38 -- California dreaming -- Marrying absurd -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Personals. On keeping a notebook -- On self-respect -- I can't get that monster out of my mind -- On morality -- On going home -- Seven places of the mind. Notes from a native daughter -- Letter from Paradise, 21°19' N., 157°52' W -- Rock of ages -- The seacoast of despair -- Guaymas, Sonora -- Los Angeles notebook -- Goodbye to all that.

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Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status  
Athens Regional Library System:
      Athens-Clarke County Library 		NONFIC 814.54 DIDION ( Send Text)
 31001004673696 NONFICTION Available
Live Oak Public Libraries:
      Islands Library 		814 DIDI ( Send Text)
 50539020688913 NONFIC Available
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      Oglethorpe Mall Library 		814 DIDI ( Send Text)
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      Douglas County Public Library 		814.54 DIDIO ( Send Text)
 31057105383643 NONFICTION Available

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