ISBN: | 9780008284688 |
Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
Published: | 16 November, 2017 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Harper Collins |
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WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES IN ORDER TO LIVELooking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys dresses with Charlie Manson's girls, and gravitates towards biker movies 'because there on screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times'. She and her reader emerge, cauterized, from this devastating tour of the myths and realities of that age of self-discovery into the harsh light of the morning after…
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