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The white album
Didion, Joan2017
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Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys dresses with Charlie Manson's girls, and gravitates towards biker movies 'because there on screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times'. She and her reader emerge, cauterised, from this devastating tour of the myths and realities of that age of self-discovery into the harsh light of the morning after.
Main title:
The white album / Joan Didion.
Author:
Didion, Joan, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : 4th Estate, 2017.
Collation:
iv, 222 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1979.Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1979.
ISBN:
9780008284688 (pbk)
Dewey class:
814.54814.54 DID
Language:
English
BRN:
2613951