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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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By Joan Didion

--> Slouching Towards Bethlehem top of page Slouching Towards Bethlehem ESSAYS January 1, 1968 Publication Date: Publisher: FSG Classics ABOUT THE BOOK “In her portraits of people,” The New York Times Book Review wrote, “Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naïve acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snows of the Hawaiian artistocracy in a way that makes them neither villanous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful…A rare display of some of the best prose writen today in this country.” In essay

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