Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Cultural criticism
- Genres: Criticism
- Subjects: United States or Americans
Form and Content
Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a collection of twenty essays on various subjects written by Joan Didion between 1961 and 1968. In the book’s preface, Didion discusses the origin of the title, a phrase taken from William Butler Yeats’s apocalyptic poem, “The Second Coming.” She relates that in writing the title piece, about the gathering of hippies in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1967, she suddenly realized that the world as she knew it no longer existed. When one reviews the essays included here, it is obvious that the...
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