![]() ![]() ![]() At once romantic and jaundiced, elegiac and cold-eyed, her pieces largely defined the state-or, more accurately, the Central Valley and Los Angeles-for two generations of readers who came to see it through her eyes rather than their own. She set her first novel, Run River (1963), written when she was twenty-eight, in her native Sacramento Valley, but her reputation as California diviner rests on her astonishing first two books of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) and The White Album (1979). ![]() For the past forty years Joan Didion has taken upon herself the task of explaining, or at least exposing, California to the New York literary world. ![]()
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