Slouching Towards Bethlehem -

Joan Didion

4th Estate

2017

238 páginas

7h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780008284640

Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

In her non-fiction work, Joan Didion not only describes the subject at hand – her younger self loving and leaving New York, the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion – but also offers a broader vision of the world, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.

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5 (Perfeito)

“Writer are always selling somebody out”

Gostei muito dos ensaios da Joan Didion, até então não tinha lido nada dela. Ela escreve de uma maneira muito sofisticada e direta, e eu amo o jeito que ela fala sobre nostalgias muito específicas. Nesse livro ela fala muito sobre aspectos da cultura americana, mas eu gostei mesmo quando ela falou sobre a vida dela.