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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Audiobook6 hours

    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

    Written by Joan Didion

    Narrated by Maya Hawke

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    About this audiobook

    This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things.

    "Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register

    “Maya Hawke performs this classic collection superbly...Hawke gets Didion's measured pace and thoughtful tone just right as she conveys the much admired author's idiosyncratic, elegant language.”—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

    Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”

    More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”

    A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateNov 5, 2024
    ISBN9781250384263
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Author

    Joan Didion

    Joan Didion is one of America’s most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.

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