One critic describes the essay as "a devastating depiction of the aimless lives of the disaffected and incoherent young," with Didion positioned as "a cool observer but not a hardhearted one." Another scholar writes that the essay's form mirrors its content the fragmented structure resonates with the essay's theme of societal fragmentation.
In contrast to the more utopian image of the milieu promoted by counterculture sympathizers then and now, Didion offers a rather grim portrayal of the goings-on, including an encounter with a pre-school-age child who was given LSD by her parents. The title essay describes Didion's impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center. This was Slouching Towards Bethlehem." Title essay At some point, an editor suggested that she had the makings of a collection, so she stacked her columns with past articles she liked (a report from Hawaii, the best of some self-help columns she'd churned out while a junior editor at Vogue), set them in a canny order with a three-paragraph introduction, and sent them off. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).Īccording to Nathan Heller in The New Yorker, the book came about this way: "In the spring of 1967, Joan Didion engaged to write a regular column for the Saturday Evening Post. It takes its title from the poem " The Second Coming" by W. B. Urn:lcp:slouchingtowards0000joan:epub:614f051d-bf64-4fb4-9a48-9f905c41004d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier slouchingtowards0000joan Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2z7nkb5vsz Invoice 1652 Ocr tesseract 5.1.0-1-ge935 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9751 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200483 Page_number_confidence 90.77 Pages 262 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220730191254 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 180 Scandate 20220730050109 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 5.Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:01:44 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40622309 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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