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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child.
Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan
2) Blue nights
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...This new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintanas wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintanas childhoodin Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion...
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2017.
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English
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Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
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New York Times Bestseller: An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker).
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse visit to...
In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.
From a jailhouse visit to...
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English
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"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
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Unabridged
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English
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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, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
With a forward...
With a forward...
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Il Saggiatore
Pub. Date
2015
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Italiano
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Lungo l'infinito nastro di Moebius delle autostrade californiane, nelle hall dei vecchi hotel coloniali affacciati sulle bianche spiagge di Honolulu, negli studi di registrazione con Jim Morrison, a cena con registi svogliati che passano di film in film come nelle comuni losangeline si passa di letto in letto, alle feste con i produttori, nei centri commerciali con la figlia, Joan Didion attraversa gli anni sessanta e settanta, raccontandone bizzarrie,...
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Everyman's library volume no. 304
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
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xxxvii, 1122 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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English
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The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in 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...
11) Miami
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English
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Examines the relationship between the Cuban exiles of Miami and the larger body politic of the United States.
13) The white album
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1979]
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222 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"The White Album is a mosaic of a time, a mosaic that includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson Family and the Ferguson brothers, the story of Bishop James Pike, and of John Paul Getty's museum, the biker cult, the saga of the California governor's mansions, the romance of water in an arid landscape, the swirl and confusion of the Sixties (the women's movement, the Panthers, Berkeley),...
14) After Henry
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
©1992
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319 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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11 essays "organized by place (Washington, D.C.; LA; New York) ... defining the culture of our cities ..."
17) Salvador
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1982, c1983
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108 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 341
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
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840 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Marking the extraordinary mid-career evolution of one of the most dynamic writers of the time, this second volume in the series includes two novels and three essay collections in which she extended the compass of her remarkable journalist's eye.
19) Vintage Didion
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Vintage
Pub. Date
2004
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199 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Library of America volume 325
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
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x, 970 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first...
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