The White Album (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Joan Didion
- First Published: 1979
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: 1960’s
The Work
In “The White Album,” the first essay of the collection, Joan Didion states her prime concern—U.S. national myths do not fit the facts of American lives. She states that there came a time when “I began to doubt the premises of all the stories I had ever told myself.”
This long first essay begins with the description of her own experience with psychiatric examinations, with living in an old house on Franklin Avenue in Los Angeles. The house was scheduled to be torn down; it was waiting for the wrecker’s ball. She records the bizarre testimony of two...
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