Book · 1979 · Nonfiction

The White Album

Name: The White Album
Author: Joan Didion

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) · 222 pages

★ 5.9 editorial score

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," the title essay begins, then takes the story apart: the Manson trial, a Doors session going nowhere, and a psychiatric report on Didion herself.

Genre

Cultural criticism

Medium

Essays

Subject

The 60s Mental health

Time

1979

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