LoginWhere 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 ances
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 14 September 2004
ISBN-10 : 0679752862 | ISBN-13: 9780679752868
Release date: 14 September 2004
ISBN-10 : 0679752862 | ISBN-13: 9780679752868
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