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Where I Was From

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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

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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