Joan Didion | The White Album
- Copyright: © 1979 by Joan Didion
- 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.
"All of the essays - even the slightest - manifest not only (Didion's) intelligence, but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism." - Robert Towers, The New York Times Book Review - • Language: English
• Dimensions: 16 х 23 cm
• Pages: 224
• Cover: softcover
• First published: 1979
• This edition published: 2017