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The White Album: Essays (FSG Classics)
by Joan Didion

Published: 2009-11-10
Paperback : 224 pages
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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era?including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall?through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion ...
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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era?including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall?through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

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by leslarmesmauves .. (see profile) 07/19/24

Joan Didion has such a special way with words and describing her life and the one of others. It was like reading a love letter to the 60/70’s and all the places she passed through. She made me want to... (read more)

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