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Where I Was From

Where I Was From

Joan Didion
3.8/5 ( ratings)
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality.

Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers , Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Release
September 14, 2004
ISBN
0679752862
ISBN 13
9780679752868

Where I Was From

Joan Didion
3.8/5 ( ratings)
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality.

Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers , Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Release
September 14, 2004
ISBN
0679752862
ISBN 13
9780679752868

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