THE WHITE ALBUM

Uncorrected proof copy of The white album by Joan Didion, her second collection of essays, following her first, Slouching toward Bethlehem, published in 1968. The white album continues, and expands her first collection of essays in which she chronicled the dissolution of American moral culture in the late 1960s and beyond. Like the Beatles album from which this volume took its title, this collection is now considered something of a classic, with essays that may not have had quite the immediate impact of some of her earlier pieces but which have quietly endured and enjoyed a kind of timelessness.