Classic literary journalism which defined, for many, the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution
`It was not a country in open revolution. It was not a country under enemy siege. It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the GNP high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not..."'
`So physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate' that people tended to forget that her presence ran counter to their best interests, Joan Didion slipped herself into the heart of the Sixties Revolution, only to slip out again with this savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during those curious days.
- ISBN10 0374531382
- ISBN13 9780374531386
- Publish Date 28 October 2008 (first published 1 May 1968)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 256
- Language English