"All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an
instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the
reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its
phrasing and exact. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of
herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary
journalism."--Robert Towers," The New York Times Book Review"
"Didion manges to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike
movies, for instance, and Bishop James Pike) as interesting and
suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration
(Georgia O'Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota) . .
. A timely and elegant collection."--"The New Yorker"
"Didion is an original journalistic talent who can strike at the
heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland
with quick, graceful strokes."--"The San Francisco Chronicle"
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