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The White Album Author: Joan Didion

ISBN: 9780374532079 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 222 Published: 10 November 2009 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 20.9 x 13.9 x 1.6 Description:

First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Joan Didion is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, among them "Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry, "and "Political Fictions." She lives in New York City. First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, a meditation on the romance of water in an arid landscape, and reflections on the swirl a...

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