✨ Featured Offer
Overview
Fromthe bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking- In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" (The Baltimore Sun), Didion-a native Californian-reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.
Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California'sethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California'sethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
| ISBN-13 | 9780679752868 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0679752862 |
| Weight | 0.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.16 x 0.60 x 7.99 In |
| List Price | $17.00 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Published On | 2004-09-14 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
Used, Good
Seller details
Goodwill Indust. of San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA
You can tell this book has been read; any issues are minor to moderate. Can include shelf wear scu...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
HPB Inc.
Dallas, TX, USA
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and ...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Half Price Books Inc
Dallas, TX, USA
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and ...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Goodwill Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paperback Book.
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Frederick, MD, USA
Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine cre...
Free delivery by: 04 Apr 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bookstores.com
Free delivery by: 01 Apr 2026
✨ Brand New
Seller details
Bookstores.com
Free delivery by: 02 Apr 2026