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The White Album

Essays
By Joan Didion
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The White Album captures the upheavals and cultural shifts of the 1960s through Joan Didion's incisive and personal lens. Exploring notable figures and movements such as Charles Manson and the Black Panthers, Didion reflects on mass culture and her own spiritual disorientation amidst the era’s chaos.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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"Originally published in 1979 by Simon & Schuster"--T.p. verso.

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First published in 1979, Joan Didion's 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780374532079

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 November 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Joan Didion Non-Fiction

About the Author

Joan Didion (1934-2021) was the National Book Award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, she started her literary career writing articles and essays for Vogue, Mademoiselle, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and National Review, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement. Her books include The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, Didion's revelatory memoir The Year of Magical Thinking was adapted as a one-woman stage show starring Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway. She also wrote several screenplays with her husband John Gregory Dunne, including Panic in Needle Park with Al Pacino, the second remake of A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and an adaptation of her own Play It As It Lays with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.

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