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American novelist Joan Didion's first volume of nonfiction essays, first published in 1968, consisting of twenty works that reflect the atmosphere in America during the 1960s, especially in California.
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Character-led, prestige, cool and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Joan Didion
- First published
- 1967
- Pages
- 238
- Publisher
- Delacorte Pr, Simon and Schuster, Noonday Press
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780008284640
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“THIS IS A STORY about love and death in the golden land, and begins with the country.”
Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. - Wikipedia
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