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DIDION, Joan was born on December 5, 1934 in Sacramento. Daughter of Frank Reese Didion and Eduene (nee Jerrett) Didion.
(Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting port...)
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.
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( A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960...)
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, 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 the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
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(A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life i...)
A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960's. The central character if Maria Wyeth, a Hollywood actress in her early thirties. Fate has, in many ways, been unkind to her - her mother died in a car crash, her career is in trouble, her marriage to an uncaring husband is also failing, and later divorces and she has a mentally handicapped daughter in an institution. Anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, she is seemingly unaffected by her fraught personal history. Wyeth epitomises a generation made ill by to much freedom.
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(Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" ...)
Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and "Play it as it Lays". Both by reknowned essayist Joan Didion. Published by the Quality Paperback Book Club.
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( The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctiv...)
The 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 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 Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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(Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" ...)
Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and "Play it as it Lays". Both by reknowned essayist Joan Didion. Published by the Quality Paperback Book Club.
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( First published in 1979, The White Album records indeli...)
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through 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 of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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(You'll be able to read this copy just fine! Sides of this...)
You'll be able to read this copy just fine! Sides of this edition show some signs of shelf life/aging but the condition of the pages is VERY GOOD!! Ships via USPS in the USA!
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(In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion...)
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away. A bracing amalgam of skepticism and sympathy, After Henry is further proof of Joan Didion's infallible radar for the true spirit of our age.
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("Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salva...)
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.
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( In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since Septemb...)
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] recognized even then [immediately after 9/11], with flames still visible in lower Manhattan, that the words 'bipartisanship' and 'national unity' had come to mean acquiescence to the administration's preexisting agenda—for example the imperative for further tax cuts, the necessity for Arctic drilling, the systematic elimination of regulatory and union protections, even the funding for the missile shield." Frank Rich in his preface notes: "The reassuring point of the fixed ideas was to suppress other ideas that might prompt questions or fears about either the logic or hidden political agendas of those conducting what CNN branded as 'America's New War.'" He adds, "This White House is famously secretive and on-message, but its skills go beyond that. It knows the power of narrative, especially a single narrative with clear-cut heroes and evildoers, and it knows how to drown out any distracting subplots before they undermine the main story." Book and cover design by Milton Glaser, Inc.
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(In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reasse...)
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
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(From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of ...)
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion 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.
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(“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a whil...)
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .” In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. The first theatrical production of The Year of Magical Thinking opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.
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(Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never befor...)
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child.
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((Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparabl...)
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the “contemporary wasteland” of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions–on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and “compassionate conservatism,” among others–show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.
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(From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of ...)
From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion 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.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078431/?tag=2022091-20
(“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a whil...)
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .” In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting portrait of a four-decade-long marriage), Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-woman play. The first theatrical production of The Year of Magical Thinking opened at the Booth Theatre on March 29, 2007, starring Vanessa Redgrave and directed by David Hare.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307386414/?tag=2022091-20
(Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never befor...)
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." With vulnerability and passion, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience of love and loss. THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING will speak directly to anyone who has ever loved a husband, wife, or child.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0032ML25A/?tag=2022091-20
( A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960...)
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, 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 the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374529949/?tag=2022091-20
(A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life i...)
A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960's. The central character if Maria Wyeth, a Hollywood actress in her early thirties. Fate has, in many ways, been unkind to her - her mother died in a car crash, her career is in trouble, her marriage to an uncaring husband is also failing, and later divorces and she has a mentally handicapped daughter in an institution. Anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, she is seemingly unaffected by her fraught personal history. Wyeth epitomises a generation made ill by to much freedom.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003JWTWKA/?tag=2022091-20
(Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" ...)
Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" and "Play it as it Lays". Both by reknowned essayist Joan Didion. Published by the Quality Paperback Book Club.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GWT1NY/?tag=2022091-20
(It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batist...)
It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south. As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence.
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(A set of three bestselling memoirs about personal discove...)
A set of three bestselling memoirs about personal discovery and accomplishment. Titles include Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time ~ Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia ~ The Year of Magical Thinking.
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(A set of three bestselling memoirs about personal discove...)
A set of three bestselling memoirs about personal discovery and accomplishment. Titles include Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time ~ Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia ~ The Year of Magical Thinking.
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(Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Didion, Joan [New York...)
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Didion, Joan [New York Review Books, 2003]...
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(This ISBN is for the Canadian edition. In 1982 Joan Didio...)
This ISBN is for the Canadian edition. In 1982 Joan Didion went to El Salvador. This is her report on what she saw there. An illuminating and authentic portrait of a society, a time and a place so terrifying that only she could capture it.
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DIDION, Joan was born on December 5, 1934 in Sacramento. Daughter of Frank Reese Didion and Eduene (nee Jerrett) Didion.
Bachelor in English, University California, Berkeley, 1956.
The Panic in Needle Park 1971, A Star is Bom 1976. Associate feature editor Vogue magazine, 1956-1963. Former columnist Saturday Evening Post, Life, Esquire. Contributor New York Review of Books.
Speaker in field.
( In Fixed Ideas Joan Didion describes how, since Septemb...)
( The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctiv...)
( A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960...)
( A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960...)
(Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never befor...)
(Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never befor...)
(Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting port...)
(In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion...)
((Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Joan Didion’s incomparabl...)
(You'll be able to read this copy just fine! Sides of this...)
(It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batist...)
(A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life i...)
(A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life i...)
(In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reasse...)
( First published in 1979, The White Album records indeli...)
(From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of ...)
(From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of ...)
(A set of three bestselling memoirs about personal discove...)
(A set of three bestselling memoirs about personal discove...)
(Would be very good but for minor shelf wear, fading and m...)
(A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life i...)
(A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life i...)
(The Year of Magical Thinking by Didion, Joan . Alfred A.K...)
(The Year of Magical Thinking by Didion, Joan . Alfred A.K...)
(This ISBN is for the Canadian edition. In 1982 Joan Didio...)
(“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a whil...)
(“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a whil...)
("Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salva...)
(Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 by Didion, Joan [New York...)
(Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" ...)
(Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" ...)
(Two books under one cover. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" ...)
Author: (novels) Run River, 1963, Play It As It Lays, 1970, A Book of Common Prayer, 1977, Democracy, 1984, The Last Thing He Wanted, 1996. (essays) Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 1968, The White Album, 1979, After Henry, 1992, (non-fiction) Salvador, 1983, Miami, 1987, Political Fictions, 2001, Fixed Ideas, 2003, Where I Was From, 2003, The Year of Magical Thinking, 2005 (National Book award, 2005), We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction, 2006, (plays) The Year of Magical Thinking, 2007. Co-author (with John Gregory Dunne): (screenplays) The Panic in Needle Park, 1971, Play It As It Lays, 1972, A Star Is Born, 1976, True Confessions, 1981, Hills Like White Elephants, 1991, Broken Trust, Up Close and Personal, 1996.
Member of American Academy of Arts and Letters (Gold medal in Belle Lettres & Criticism 2005, Morton Dauwen Zabel prize 1978), Council Foreign Relations, American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Married John Gregory Dunne, January 30, 1964 (deceased December 2003). 1 child Quintana Roo (deceased).