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Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche.
Forlag Farrar Straus Giroux
Utgivelsesår 2009
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9780374532079
EAN 9780374532079
Språk Engelsk
Sider 222
Utgave 1
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We tell ourselves stories in order to live.