Author | Joan Didion |
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Cover artist | Lawrence Ratzkin |
Language | English |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 1968 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardback and paperback) |
Pages | 238 |
OCLC | 22634186 |
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.[1] The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).