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Where I Was from: A Memoir

Where I Was from: A Memoir

Didion, Joan

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

Literary Figures20th Century United States HistoryRegional: West

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0679752862
ISBN13: 9780679752868
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 14 2004
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John: In this arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline (The Baltimore Sun), Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.

Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California'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 this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.

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