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title: "Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (LOA #325): Run River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It As It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album (Library of America, 325)"
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# Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (LOA #325): Run River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It As It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album (Library of America, 325)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great overview
  

*by F***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2023*

Joan Didion was my hero in college.  My first class as a junior transfer student was an independent study using Thom Wolfe's book on the New Jounalists. This type of writing is being called creative non fiction now, but Joan, Thom and Hunter Thompson started it all. I read all of these then, but this LOA, Library of America compilation is just handy. Be sure and check out the LOA's compilations of her other works.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    DIDION'S '60S AND '70S WORK  THAT MADE HER AN INFLUENTIAL LITERARY FIGURE.
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2019*

This edition is the first of three books collecting Didion's work.  Encompassing her writings in the '60s/'70s, this is some of her very best work.  From  Run River ('63), a novel about ranch families in the Sacramento Valley and how they deal with the coming of suburban sprawl  and values different from their own, and how it affects the characters in the novel, this sets up Didion's look at California life found in other writings included here.Perhaps best known for Slouching Towards Bethlehem ('68), a collection of observations and thoughts on a number of subjects including the Las Vegas wedding industry, the Haight-Ashbury counterculture, and other subjects, Didion gives a report from the time period that's both a  new style of writing  that's observational and humanistic.Play It As It Lays ('70) is all about the high flying life in Hollywood and how things can go wrong.  The subject of the novel sees her life and career fading and finds herself devoid of real human connection.A Book Of Common Prayer ('77) is set in Central America with a mother looking for her daughter, a Marxist revolutionary,  in the context of political revolution of a country in upheaval.The White Album ('79) finds Didion once again writing about California  including subjects like shopping malls, the Black Panthers, The Doors, and the Manson Family.  Her writing seems to point to a California that is slightly off kilter from earlier times, and that seems  to be changing rapidly into something darker, and not for the better.All in all, this book collects some of Didion's most incisive writing combining keen observations and her own feelings into a style that always seems dispassionate yet very readable.  The book itself is in the usual format for this series.  A minor quibble--I understand the use of thin paper stock, but wish it was a bit thicker for easier use when reading.  But if you haven't read Didion's early work, or only some of it, this is a worthwhile addition to your library.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A wonderful biography.
  

*by S***K on Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2022*

A great,long life lived. Very interesting reading about an iconic person.

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