![]() But it takes a lot of art to make sentences like these from the opening of “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” describing the social breakdown presaged by the Summer of Love in 1967 San Francisco: “The center was not holding. A classic collection of nonfiction: a definitive portrait of California in the 1960s and a revealing look at an America in dissolution that illustrates the roots of our own fragmented culture today.ĭidion is a writer’s writer, like George Orwell or Alice Munro, producing prose so crystalline and uncluttered that it appears artless. ![]()
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