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The White Album

by Joan Didion

The White Album Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

First published in 1979, The White Album is a mosaic of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a Balck Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, the romance of water in an arid landscape, and the swirl and confusion of the sixties. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Joan Didion exposes the realities and dreams of that age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.

About the Author

Joan Didion is the author of five novels and six works of nonfiction: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry, and Political Fictions She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Contents

I. THE WHITE ALBUM

The White Album

II. CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC

James Pike, American

Holy Water

Many Mansions

The Getty

Bureaucrats

Good Citizens

Notes Toward a Dreampolitik

III. WOMEN

The Women's Movement

Doris Lessing

Georgia O'Keeffe

IV. SOJOURNS

In the Islands

In Hollywood

In Bed

On the Road

On the Mall

In Bogota

At the Dam

V. ON THE MORNING AFTER THE SIXTIES

On the Morning After the Sixties

Quiet Days in Malibu


Product Details

ISBN:
9780374522216
Author:
Didion, Joan
Publisher:
Farrar Straus Giroux
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Sociology - General
Series Volume:
95-1
Publication Date:
October 1990
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
7.98x5.32x.59 in. .52 lbs.

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