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Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats.
A famous poem by William Butler Yeats that depicts the apocalyptic and chaotic state of the world. The phrase \"slouching towards Bethlehem\" appears in the last line, describing a beast that is about to be born in the city of Bethlehem.
4.19. 68,193 ratings6,725 reviews. The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America—particularly California—in the sixties.
Economic historian Brad DeLong references the phrase "Slouches towards Bethlehem" in the title of his 2022 book Slouching Towards Utopia; The 2024 BBC One drama The Way referenced and quoted the poem, during its depiction of the collapse of civil society in Wales following a riot in Port Talbot. References
28 de oct. de 2008 · 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.”
A collection of essays by Joan Didion that capture the dislocation and disorientation of the 1960s, from the Haight-Ashbury to Hawaii, from John Wayne to Joan Baez. The book title refers to a Yeats poem that expresses the sense of impending doom and chaos.
14 de jun. de 2017 · Didion explores the dark side of the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. She portrays the alienation, violence, and despair of the young people who rejected the mainstream society and sought a new way of life.
