- Civilization, American poetry, Popular culture, united states, Essays (single author)
"The White Album is a mosaic of a time, a mosaic that includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson Family and the Ferguson brothers, the story of Bishop James Pike, and of John Paul Getty's museum, the biker cult, the saga of the California governor's mansions, the romance of water in an arid landscape, the swirl and confusion of th Sixties (the women's movement, the Panthers, Berkeley), and the experience of getting away--to Bogotá, to Las Vegas, the Islands, the road or simply to bed--and coming home again"--Cover.
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- gravecomic
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- rawmeticulous
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Joan Didion
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 222
- Publisher
- Audible Studios on Brilliance, FisicalBook, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780671601034
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“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
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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