The White Album: Essays by Joan Didion

The White Album: Essays

Joan Didion

224 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction essays history informative reflective medium-paced
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In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture. From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton to witne...

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reflective 89%
informative 66%
challenging 24%
emotional 19%
inspiring 15%
funny 14%
relaxing 11%
adventurous 8%
dark 6%
lighthearted 5%
sad 5%
hopeful 4%
tense 2%
mysterious 1%

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slow 36%
fast 9%

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