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Where I Was From
Joan Didion
其他書名
A Memoir
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2011-01-26
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
ISBN
0307763293
9780307763297
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3mtJoAgd0wgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From the bestselling, award-winning author of
The Year of Magical Thinking
: 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.