WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES IN ORDER TO LIVE
Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys dresses with Charlie Manson's girls, and gravitates towards biker movies 'because there on screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times'. She and her reader emerge, cauterized, from this devastating tour of the myths and realities of that age of self-discovery into the harsh light of the morning after...
- ISBN10 0374522219
- ISBN13 9780374522216
- Publish Date 1 October 1990 (first published 1 January 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 222
- Language English