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Title	:	The White Album
Author	:	Joan Didion
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 222 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1990 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 1979)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Autobiography. Memoir. History. Journalism. Classics. Biography

The White Album

Joan Didion

Paperback | Pages: 222 pages

Rating: 4.16 | 15449 Users | 1107 Reviews

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First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, a meditation on the romance of water in an arid landscape, and reflections on the swirl and confusion that marked this era. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Didion exposes the realities and dreams of an age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California. Table of Contents I. THE WHITE ALBUM "The White Album" II. CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC "James Pike, American" "Holy Water" "Many Mansions" "The Getty" "Bureaucrats" "Good Citizens" "Notes Toward a Dreampolitik" III. WOMEN "The Women's Movement" "Doris Lessing" "Georgia O'Keeffe" IV. SOJOURNS "In the Islands" "In Hollywood" "In Bed" "On the Road" "On the Mall" "In Bogota" "At the Dam" V. ON THE MORNING AFTER THE SIXTIES "On the Morning After the Sixties" "Quiet Days in Malibu"

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Original Title:	The White Album
ISBN:	0374522219 (ISBN13: 9780374522216)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1979), National Book Award Finalist for General Nonfiction (Paperback) (1981)

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..........."Ancient marbles were not always attractively faded and worn. Ancient marbles once looked as they do here: as if dreamed by a mafia don." 76

We tell ourselves stories in order to live... We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.- Joan Didion, The White Album I wish I could dance like Fred

I've always thought that I was somehow naïve to some sort of greater truth about reality, or at least the United States, or at least California, because I had never read anything by Joan Didion. Friends and acquaintances and strangers spoke of her with a sort of ineloquent awe as if their own descriptions could never match her lucid prose or mental acuity.Now that I have actually read her own words I want to know, what is all the fuss about? I find Barbara Grizzutti Harrison's 1980 essay much

The White Album was required reading for my American Experience class. I didn't love the book at first, but after a couple of essays, Didion's quiet style started to grow on me. This collection is a revealing narrative of events that occurred in the 1960's and 1970's. It examines the lives of famous and infamous people and places (Charles Manson, Ramón Novarro, the Hoover Dam, Huey Newton, the California freeway, Bogotá, Doris Lessing, and others). Didion gives candid and thoughtful snapshots of

Didion's The White Album gives a collection of events from shopping malls, to the Manson Murders, the women's movement, migraines, all the way to describing her perspective and what life was like in America post-60s. I deeply enjoyed Didion's writing style and liked her reflections. A great read if you are interested in the topic and like essays.

I cannot say enough about Joan Didion. Her writing captures the mood of the 1960's and '70's West Coast better than anyone else I have read. I was old enough when the events she wrote about here took place for some of them to have impacted my world, and my family made the first of several months long travels to the Coast in 1977, so I am familiar with some of the settings. Didion's was able to get close to the tiniest detail of her stories. Her descriptions of what happens during wildfires will

This undersung little book rates so highly with me that it very nearly earns my vote for the best writing by any modern-day American woman author. Period. [I would make it my #1 choice, but that honor goes to horror-authoress Shirley Jackson.] If we focus only on 20c. American nonfiction ; then it is certainly my #1 favorite title--beating out all works by all other females, and also all males (David McCullough, Norman Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, etc) as well. Did you hear