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A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
Category: Accessories
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
After Henry by Joan Didion
Category: Reference | Series: Vintage International Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature.... She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washingto ...Show more
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Category: Biography
A "New York Times" Notable BookFrom one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an intensely ...Show more
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
Category: Biography
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatter ...Show more
FIXED IDEAS AMERICA SINCE 9.11 by Joan Didion; Frank Rich (Preface by)
Category: Non-Fiction
In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since September 11, 2001, there has been a determined effort by the administration to promote an imperial America--a "New Unilateralism"--and how, in many parts of America, there is now a "disconnect" between the government and citizens. " Americans] recogni ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
Category: Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion ; Hilton Als (Editor); Connie Butler (Editor); Ann Philbin (Introduction by); Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
Category: Art
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics - including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy Warhol. In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer a ...Show more
Joan Didion: the 1980s And 90s Salvador / Democracy / Miami / after Henry / the Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; David L. Ulin (Editor)
Category: Reference
Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-career This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Category: Non-Fiction
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Category: Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
Category: Biography
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Miami by Joan Didion
Category: Non-Fiction
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West.In Miami, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and ...Show more