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A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: General Adult
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)
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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 1960s & 70s (LOA #325) by Joan Didion
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Library of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailbla ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
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Category: Photography
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
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics | Reading Level: very good
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
Political Fictions by Didion, Joan
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Category: Culture & Ideas
National Bestseller In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one ...Show more