Slouching Towards Bethlehem Martin Goodman Ever since his stories first

Ever since his stories first appeared

Executive Vice President

These eight stories by beloved and bestselling author Jhumpa Lahiri take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand

and the final confrontation between Hannibal and the youthful Scipio Africanus

Slouching Towards Bethlehem Martin Goodman Ever since his stories firstThe first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of Americaparticularly Californiain the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight