{"product_id":"slouching-towards-bethlehem-by-joan-didion","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"ntraii-dcashz-ou2p1a-bu8on5\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion―one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era―captures her focus on time and place at a unique moment in history. Here, Didion explores people and subjects such as John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up in California, the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, and the birth of American counterculture. Didion’s work in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has become a totem for readers “who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). “In her portraits of people,” writes the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “Didion is not out to expose but to understand.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and as a classic of New Journalism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Didion at her finest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"globalStoreInfoBullets\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"ukpr42-vpkr8v-il12i4-l51qg7\" data-cel-widget=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"vu3ys7-ymclzm-xsg1e1-bjdhmr\" data-cel-widget=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"tellAmazon\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"tellAmazon\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"9mpl38-5zekze-v7dd6k-l1u7dv\" data-cel-widget=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget c-f\" data-csa-op-log-render=\"\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"DsUnknown\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"DsUnknown-10\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-painter=\"tell-amazon-desktop-cards\" data-csa-c-id=\"u9wxke-i1capt-l0gn26-cn0fjw\" data-cel-widget=\"tell-amazon-desktop_DetailPage_9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"CardInstanceZPSY34YWidGUYMDRyiIZhg\" data-card-metrics-id=\"tell-amazon-desktop_DetailPage_9\" data-acp-tracking=\"{}\" data-mix-claimed=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53097193406773,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/slouchingTowardsBethlehem.jpg?v=1783275650","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/slouching-towards-bethlehem-by-joan-didion","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}