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Joan Didion
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (FSG Classics)
by Joan Didion
Joan Didion's reports from 1960s California, cool and exact and quietly devastating, the collection that made her name and turned the personal essay into a precision instrument. Where other writers reached for heat, Didion wrote cold, and the chill is what lasts.