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Where I was from / Joan Didion.
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - New Acquisitions F861 .D53 2004
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- Author/Creator:
- Didion, Joan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--History.
- California.
- California--Social conditions.
- California--In literature.
- Didion, Joan.
- National characteristics, American.
- Social conditions.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- History.
- Literature
- History
- Literature.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 226 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage International edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage International : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2004.
- Summary:
- Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers.
- [This volume] turns what [the author] has called her sonar ear, her radar eye onto her own work, as well as that of such California writers as Frank Norris and Jack London and Henry George, to examine how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of the California settlement led to the California we know today--a state mortgaged first to the railroad, then to the aerospace industry, and overwhelmingly to the federal government, a dependent colony of those political and corporate owners who fly in for the annual encampment of the Bohemian Club. Here is the one writer we always want to read on California showing us the startling contradictions in its and in America's core values. [The author's] unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers.-Dust jacket.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0679752862
- 9780679752868
- OCLC:
- 57191802
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