Where I was from
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"In this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Where I Was From, in Didionʼs words, 'represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, confusions as much about America as about California, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely.' The book is a haunting narrative of how her own family moved west with the frontier from the birth of her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to the death of her mother on the edge of the Pacific in 2001; of how the wagon-train stories of hardship and abandonment and endurance created a culture in which survival would seem the sole virtue--Publisher's description.
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Didion, J. (20042003). Where I was from. 1st Vintage International ed. New York, Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan. 20042003. Where I Was From. New York, Vintage International.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan, Where I Was From. New York, Vintage International, 20042003.
MLA Citation (style guide)Didion, Joan. Where I Was From. 1st Vintage International ed. New York, Vintage International, 20042003.
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