FSG Classics Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays, (Paperback)

from rmckeown

Ages ago, a friend recommended Miami, an extended essay by Joan Didion. Try as I might, I could not keep my mind on the text. Something about the style drove me away. A page from my daily Book Lovers Calendar, a comment from my wife, and a book that had fallen behind a shelf all conspired to my r...

from rmckeown

Ages ago, a friend recommended Miami, an extended essay by Joan Didion. Try as I might, I could not keep my mind on the text. Something about the style drove me away. A page from my daily Book Lovers Calendar, a comment from my wife, and a book that had fallen behind a shelf all conspired to my r...

from nicholasjjordan

Joan Didion only came onto my radar with Year of Magical Thinking. This is one of those that made her reputation, and it's so good I wonder if the awards for Magical Thinking were more lifetime achievement awards rather than only earned on the merits of that book. I'll be reading her more.

from daisyq

All these essays are worth reading, but "Goodbye to All That" is perfect. I can't even pick a favourite quote, I keep wanting to quote the whole thing. It is such an amazing evocation of time and place, of what it means to shift into a different phase of your life and how it isn't obvious that yo...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

Old school but really refreshing, intelligent but not dry, witty but not smug. Surprisingly still relevant today. Interesting to read and work out where she was in relation to the events and places she writes about. A kind of friendly impartiality coupled with an incisive perception. It's easy to...