- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (24 Jan 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006546757
- ISBN-13: 978-0006546757
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,304,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"I could die reading Joan Didion. It would be the perfect way to go – slipping effortlessly into the deep, dark spiral of the long goodbye while gorging on the unimprovable sentences with which she constructs her narratives."
MICHAEL THOMPSON-NOËL, 'Financial Times'
"Joan Didion is, for my money, America's premier literary essayist. She possesses more heart and muscle than either Updike or Vidal, and invokes more emotional resonance than Sontag. With uniform grace and vigorous attention, she writes about Big Physics, earthquakes, a sensational Hollywood murder trial, real estate on Oahu, and the history of LA mayoral politics."
SCOTT BRADFIELD, 'TES'
"Didion seems by temperament drawn to the mind's inaccessible places. Readers of Didion know about dread and anxiety; they gain a slant on the bizarreries in human nature; learn to analyse the seemingly incomprehensible steps that lead to murder. There is no place here for easy morality. But then Didion writes, not from a position of knowledge, but the need to understand."
FRANCES SPALDING, 'Sunday Times'
"Didion looks straight into a place where most of us have a blind spot, and it is that quality, so easy to praise, so difficult to imitate, that transmutes her writings into valuable, as well as sentimental, journeys… a voice we cannot afford to lose."
NATASHA WALTER, 'Independent'
"'Sentimental Journeys' is a book about loss; of life, of quality, of integrity, innocence, purpose, ambition, a sense of community and belonging. It is about America now."
ALAN TAYLOR, 'Scotsman'
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In this latest foray into the ailing American psyche, Joan Didion takes her scalpel to inauthenticity and dogma, and lays bare the discrepancies between urban realities and the images peddled by America's attendant quack doctors. Like its great predecessors, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album', 'Sentimental Journeys' is a thoroughly astringent, bracing report on the State of the Union.
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Fragmentary evidence of civilization
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Henry Robbins was a New York editor. He died in 1979. There was a memorial service for him at the Society of Ethical Culture. He was hurt when his authors got bad reviews. The editor gives the writer the idea of himself.
Joan Didion writes of the expectation the Ronald Reagans had that other people would take care of their needs. A presidential campaign is a set. It is moved at considerable expense from location to location. A campaign can be an isolating experience. Didion is hilarious about ball-playing on the tarmac.
We learn of the generations of Hearsts preceding Patricia Campbell Hearst. The original Wyntoon was a creation of the architect Bernard Maybeck. It burned down. Patty attended school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Menlo Park. Patricia Hearst wrote of her experience of being kidnapped. Life with the SLA had the distorted logic of dreams.
Living in Los Angeles requires the driving of great distances. There is an absence of narrative. Didion decides that narrative is sentimental anyway.
Joan Didion describes Vietnamese refugee camps in Hong Kong. The residents of the camps put their lives on hold waiting for the consular interview, hoping to achieve relocation.
In California movies are the industry. It is believed that writers can always be replaced.
Los Angeles was literally invented by the Los Angeles Times and its owners. To oppose the Chandlers was to oppose the perfection of Los Angeles.
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