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Product Identifiers
PublisherBrilliance Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-101978605080
ISBN-139781978605084
eBay Product ID (ePID)20038725901
Product Key Features
TopicUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 20th Century, General
Publication Year2019
Book TitleWhere I Was from
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary Collections, History
AuthorJoan Didion
FormatCompact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 In.
Item Length5.5 In.
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Width6.5 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Number of Volumes5 vols.
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
SynopsisIn 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 (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
