The White Album - Paperback

Joan Didion's second essay collection, covering the late 1960s and 1970s: the Manson murders, the Black Panthers, a road trip through the California desert. The sentences that taught a generation of writers how to see.

These essays are the model. Didion observes, documents, refuses to explain or judge. She shows you what she sees. The precision of the prose mirrors the precision of her eye. By the end you see differently. This is what the essay form can do. This is essential reading for anyone who cares about writing or thinking.

Workshops, literature classes, and writing seminars assign this constantly. It's the book that shows how to do it.

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- Author: Joan Didion
- Paperback
- Essays on America, culture, and politics
- Literary collections