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Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 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.”

More 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.”

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    2008年 10月 28日
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“Our conception of 1960s and ’70s America exists, in large part, due to Didion.” —Hermione Hoby, The Guardian “A timely and elegant collection.” —The New Yorker “There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanael West.” —John Leonard, The New York Times
Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction is considered a watershed in American writing. 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. A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's novel captures the mood of an entire generation.

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“In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country.” ―Dan Wakefield, The New York Times Book Review

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Upon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. Her unblinking vision and deadpan tone have influenced subsequent generations of reporters and essayists, changing our expectations of style, voice, and the artistic possibilities of nonfiction.
"In her portraits of people," "The New York Times Book Review wrote, "Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country."
In essay after essay, Didion captures the dislocation of the 1960s, the disorientation of a country shredding itself apart with social change. Her essays not only describe the subject at hand--the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion--but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own.
Joyce Carol Oates has written, "Joan Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever. . . . She 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."

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  • 出版社 ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • 出版日期 ‏ : ‎ 2008年 10月 28日
  • 版本 ‏ : ‎ 第一版
  • 语言 ‏ : ‎ 英语
  • 纸书页数 ‏ : ‎ 256页
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374531382
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374531386
  • 商品重量 ‏ : ‎ 1.05 Kilograms
  • 尺寸 ‏ : ‎ 13.84 x 1.65 x 20.96 cm
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Joan Didion was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didion’s other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996).

Didion’s first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005.

In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion’s distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.” In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” She died in December 2021.

For more information, visit www.joandidion.org

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  • JC
    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 Classic landmark book
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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is a collection of essays by Joan Didion that captures the essence of American culture in the 1960s. Didion's sharp observations and distinctive prose style make this book a landmark of American journalism. Through her essays, she explores a range of topics from the decay of morals in San Francisco to the crafting of self-identity in the golden landscapes of California. Each essay is a meticulously crafted snapshot of a society in flux, observed with the keen, critical eye of a journalist tempered with the narrative flair of a novelist. Didion's work not only provides a historical account of a pivotal era but also offers timeless insights into the complexities of human behavior and the societal forces shaping our lives. Her blend of personal reflection and social commentary has cemented this collection as a classic of modern American literature, resonating with readers who appreciate incisive, introspective narratives.
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  • emmejay
    4.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 Turbulent '60s Essays
    2013年4月27日在美国发布评论
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    This is my third by Didion, after her memoirs The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights. It's a collection of 20 turbulent essays -- mostly social commentary but some personal, and all personally felt -- published in various magazines in the mid-1960s. Much of the commentary remains relevant; even many of the details feel current -- for example, these opening lines of the long title essay, set during Haight-Ashbury's 1967 summer of love:

    "The center was not holding. It was a country of bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who misspelled even the four-letter words they scrawled. It was a country in which families routinely disappeared, trailing bad checks and repossession papers."

    I enjoyed most of these essays, where Didion seems like a naturalist in close observation; she infuses more so than reports, and eschews transitions so that I suddenly realized things that hadn't been written. It's been long enough since I read them to recognize a few that still pop up as especially memorable, among them the piece about Haight-Ashbury; one about infidelity and murder outside Los Angeles; another about becoming enamored of John Wayne and forever after dreaming that a man would, as Wayne did in a film, "build her a house 'at the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow' "; and one about the psychological effects of the Santa Ana and other "foehn" winds that compels me to read more on the phenomenon.

    I've always been struck that Didion is about the size of a mosquito, and here I was interested to read her take on the matter:

    "My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does."

    Yeah, don't let appearances fool you, Didion is brave and passionate and compelling, and it occurs to me that one of the essays, "On Self-respect," details the stitching behind her strength of character. And she's shockingly wise:

    "I remember one day [...] we both had hangovers [...] and we walked to a Spanish restaurant and drank Bloody Marys and gazpacho until we felt better. I was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because I still had all the afternoons in the world.

    Are you kidding me? That wasn't written by today's septuagenarian Didion looking back; that's her at age 32. I look forward to reading more, next up probably The White Album.
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  • Vanessa
    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 I'm Didion's Newest Fan
    2025年11月14日在美国发布评论
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    In the world of slick AI writing that repels me, this book is a breath of fresh air. It evokes a mid-century vibe that instantly transports me to that place in time when life was very different -- yet still the same. Didion's writing is captivating and contemporary despite this book being 60 years old. I highly recommend it!
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  • Carey Calvert
    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 ... always selling somebody out.
    2021年2月14日在美国发布评论
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    Once I read The Year of Magical Thinking, I made it my goal to read all of Didion’s books; this in preparation or rather leading up to her latest endeavor, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, which features twelve never before collected pieces, that “offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure.”
     
    It is scheduled to be released January 26th.
     
    The Year of Magical Thinking is a beautifully written exploration of the self, enveloped in grief.
     
    While doing research for her latest, I googled her page and found a Vanity Fair article from 2016, “How Joan Didion the Writer Became Joan Didion the Legend.” In The Atlantic, a post from 2015, “The Elitist Allure of Joan Didion,” and finally, from the Inquirer. Net, a post from yesterday, January 15, “What did Joan Didion smell like in her 20s?”
     
    Of course I clicked on it.
     
    It led me to the last chapter in Slouching Towards Bethlehem, “Goodbye to All That,” her instinctive yet enthralling ode to New York. “For a lot of the time I was in New York I used a perfume called Fleurs de Rocaille, and then L’Air du Temps, and now the slightest trace of either can short-circuit my connections for the rest of the day.”
     
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem was published in 1968 and both are still available; the former launched in 1933, the latter, 1948.

    The title comes from the Yeats poem, The Second Coming, and “conveys the complexity and the ‘atomization’ of the hippie scene not as the latest fashionable fad, but as a serious advanced stage of society in which things are truly “falling apart.””
     
    Didion is always relevant.
     
    I didn’t know Slouching Towards Bethlehem is Didion’s first collection of non-fiction writing; at the time there were questions whether this type of writing was acceptable other than “mere journalism,” but in reality, it is a “rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country.”

    In Dan Wakefield’s review from the New York Times at the time of its publication, “… in her portraits of people, Ms. Didion is not out to expose but to understand and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed bridges and naïve acid trippers, left wing idealogues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamourous but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful in the midst of their lives’ debris.”

    Divided into 3 sections, Lifestyles in the Golden Land, Personals, and Seven Places of the Mind; it doesn’t matter what she writes, her personality comes through in such a self-effacing way, as if speaking with a friend. Her prose can meander without losing the reader, then lead you right to a Kleenex.

    And you don’t know how you got there.
     
    “My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.”
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  • Katharina Bienz
    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 As advertised ,
    2022年2月17日在墨西哥发布评论
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    As advertised, came 1 day after order was placed
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  • Bindhu S
    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 Short
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    Good
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  • Pastafactory
    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 Fabuleux
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    Une des plus grandes autrices du XXème siècle. Peut-être son recueil le plus connu, malheureusement pas intégralement traduit en français.
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    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 Amazing writing
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    Joan is a hell of a writer
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    5.0 颗星，最多 5 颗星 very good
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    Very well written!
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