![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the essays can be read without context, I think that they benefit from familiarity with her other work.The first six essays were all originally published in 1968, and very much provide an insight, however second hand, into that period in West Coast America. Needless to say they are all good, with some better than others depending upon what you have read by Didion (I have read a lot of her essay collections, but none of her fiction). So here I am one year later, and having got the book for Christmas, I managed to stretch the essays out over three days. And I had already read several of these essays which were reprinted around the time this book was published. I delayed buying this last year, although I have read many books by Didion and read a lot of the positive reviews, as I knew that I would wolf down such a slim volume, just twelve essays. ![]()
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