{"product_id":"slouching-towards-bethlehem","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJoan Didion's first work of nonfiction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the \"foundational text\" of her oeuvre (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion--one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era--captures her focus on time and place at a unique moment in history. Here, Didion explores people and subjects such as John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up in California, the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, and the birth of American counterculture. Didion's work in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has become a totem for readers \"who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self\" (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). \"In her portraits of people,\" writes the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \"Didion is not out to expose but to understand.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and as a classic of New Journalism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Didion at her finest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FORGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50309089394938,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0832\/2714\/8538\/files\/81CSmMrq_L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1789188819","url":"https:\/\/forgeritual.store\/products\/slouching-towards-bethlehem","provider":"FORGE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}