Book · 1968 · Nonfiction
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) · 256 pages
★ 7.0 editorial score
Didion went into Haight-Ashbury in 1967 and came back with a five-year-old on acid and children improvising a society in a vacuum. She rebuilt American nonfiction prose around the sound of her sentences.
