The White Album fiction artistic act

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IRISH TIMES AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR Everyone is talking about LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND 'You will probably need to read it in as close to one sitting as possible' Sunday Times 'A page-turner taking in themes of isolation

from bats and keen-eyed owls capering across the starry sky to the bioluminescent creatures of the deep

In Humanly Possible Sarah Bakewell asks what humanism is and why it has flourished for so long

heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction

The White Album fiction artistic actFirst published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the eraincluding Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mallthrough the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text