{"product_id":"where-i-was-from-a-memoir-vintage-international","title":"Where I Was From: A Memoir (Vintage International)","description":"From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Notes to John: 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.\n\nDidion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic 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.\n\nWhether 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0679752862\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0679752862.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Didion, Joan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46850237333701,"sku":"LFV.0679752862.VG","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0679752862-0.jpg?v=1788369129","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/where-i-was-from-a-memoir-vintage-international","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}