"Slouching Towards Bethlehem"

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This paper focuses on Joan Didion?s most intriguing book, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem." The essays in the novel present a somber tone and, thus, meet cliches such as "don?t judge the book by its cover" and "what meets the eye is not always true". This paper also discusses the themes of Didion?s essays.

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"Joan Didion's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" provides its readers with archetypal examples of the social criticism permeating through new Journalism. This book is Joan Didion's second novel, which immediately established the young writer as one the best essayists of a stellar generation. Didion was restrained, classical, with emotions only hinted at; her effects depended less on obvious narrative experiment or hilarious excess than on the exact balance of a sentence and the careful placement of a clause or adjective, and on a pervasive sense of melancholy. Nearly all her longer essays might bear the classical epigraph Sunt lacrimae rerum -- There are tears in things (Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book Club; Slouching Towards Bethlehem)."

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