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The white album

Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1979.
Edition/Format:   Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"The White Album is a mosaic of a time, a mosaic that includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson Family and the Ferguson brothers, the story of Bishop James Pike, and of John Paul Getty's museum, the biker cult, the saga of the California governor's mansions, the romance of water in an arid landscape, the swirl and confusion of th Sixties (the women's  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Named Person: Joan Didion; Joan Didion
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joan Didion
ISBN: 0671226851 9780671226855
OCLC Number: 4775378
Description: 222 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: The white album. --
California republic. James Pike, American ; Holy water ; Many mansions ; The Getty ; Bureaucrats ; Good citizens ; Notes toward a dreampolitik --
Women. The women's movement ; Doris Lessing ; Georgia O'Keeffe --
Sojourns. In the islands ; In Hollywood ; In bed ; On the road ; On the mall ; In Bogota ; At the dam --
On the morning after the sixties. On the morning after the sixties ; Quiet days in Malibu.
Responsibility: Joan Didion.

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"The White Album is a mosaic of a time, a mosaic that includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson Family and the Ferguson brothers, the story of Bishop James Pike, and of John Paul Getty's museum, the biker cult, the saga of the California governor's mansions, the romance of water in an arid landscape, the swirl and confusion of th Sixties (the women's movement, the Panthers, Berkeley), and the experience of getting away--to Bogotá, to Las Vegas, the Islands, the road or simply to bed--and coming home again"--Cover.

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