The white album
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Simon and Schuster, [1979].
Format:
Book
ISBN:
0671226851
Status:
Description
New York Times Bestseller: An "elegant" mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem ( The New Yorker ). In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture. From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton to witnessing First Lady of California Nancy Reagan pretend to pick flowers for the benefit of news cameras, Didion captures the paranoia and absurdity of the era with her signature blend of irony and insight. She takes readers to the "giddily splendid" Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the cool mountains of Bogotá, and the Jordanian Desert, where Bishop James Pike went to walk in Jesus's footsteps—and died not far from his rented Ford Cortina. She anatomizes the culture of shopping malls—"toy garden cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes"—and exposes the contradictions and compromises of the women's movement. In the iconic title essay, she documents her uneasy state of mind during the years leading up to and following the Manson murders—a terrifying crime that, in her memory, surprised no one. Written in "a voice like no other in contemporary journalism," The White Album is a masterpiece of literary reportage and a fearless work of autobiography by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking ( The New York Times Book Review ). Its power to electrify and inform remains undiminished nearly forty years after it was first published.
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Last Check-In
Pitkin County Library
814.54 D556wh
On Shelf
Feb 20, 2024
WCU Book Stacks
PS3554.I33W4
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Feb 22, 2023
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Physical Desc:
222 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Didion, J. (1979). The white album. New York, Simon and Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan. 1979. The White Album. New York, Simon and Schuster.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan, The White Album. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1979.
MLA Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan. The White Album. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1979.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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