The white album /
by Didion, Joan.
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BookPublisher: London : 4th Estate, 2017Description: 224 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780008284688 (pbk.) :; 0008284687 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 814.54 DIDSubject(s): Popular culture -- United States | Nineteen sixties | Literature | LiteratureSummary: Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys dresses with Charlie Manson's girls, and gravitates towards biker movies 'because there on screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times'. She and her reader emerge, cauterised, from this devastating tour of the myths and realities of that age of self-discovery into the harsh light of the morning after.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Formby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 814.54 DID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002951018X |
Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1979.
Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys dresses with Charlie Manson's girls, and gravitates towards biker movies 'because there on screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times'. She and her reader emerge, cauterised, from this devastating tour of the myths and realities of that age of self-discovery into the harsh light of the morning after.
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