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  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean
    Didion, Joan
    With a forward by Hilton Als, these pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion’s incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (The New York Times Book Review).Here, Did...

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  • Let Me Tell You What I Mean
    Didion, Joan
    A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's words, "represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, misapprehensions and misunderstand...

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  • Su último deseo
    Didion, Joan
    Un oscuro y enigmático thriller sobre los complots y conspiraciones de la Guerra Fría de la mano de Joan Didion, una de las narradoras más lúcidas de las letras norteamericanas. Elena McMahon abandona su trabajo como reportera en The Washington Post y su lujosa vida en California para adentrarse en otra: la de su padre, una existencia repleta de tratos oscuros. Sin apenas dars...

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  • El año del pensamiento mágico
    Joan Didion
    El clásico contemporáneo sobre el duelo de Joan Didion, El año del pensamiento mágico, ilustrado por Paula Bonet en una edición especial. En 2003, Joan Didion tuvo que afrontar la repentina muerte de su esposo y la larga enfermedad de su única hija. Con una fascinante distancia emocional, la autora narra su reacción a la tragedia y al duelo en un libro que desborda honestid...

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  • Run River
    Didion, Joan
    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 be...

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  • Año del pensamiento mágico, El
    Didion, Joan
    Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el ...

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  • Blue Nights
    Didion, Joan
    From 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 personal and moving account of her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness and growi...

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  • White Album, The
    Didion, Joan
    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 ton...

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  • Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    Didion, Joan
    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 e...

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  • Year of Magical Thinking, The
    Didion, Joan
    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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  • We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
    Didion, Joan
    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 symbol...

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  • Según venga el juego
    Didion, Joan
    A sus treinta años, Maria Wyeth se encuentra emocionalmente a la deriva y ajena a todo lo que la rodea. Su carrera de actriz se ha limitado a papeles en películas de tercera y siempre ha vivido a la sombra de su marido, un reconocido director de Hollywood que nunca le ha permitido tomar sus propias decisiones con respecto a su hija de cuatro años, recluida en un centro médico p...

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  • Book of Common Prayer, A
    Didion, Joan
    Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil.A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virt...

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  • Where I Was From
    Didion, Joan
    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 Fr...

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  • Sur y oeste
    Didion, Joan
    Joan Didion siempre ha conservado sus cuadernos de notas, con diálogos cazados al vuelo, observaciones, entrevistas y borradores de sus artículos. En el verano de 1970, la autora completó uno de estos cuadernos relatando su experiencia durante un roadtrip por Misisipi, Alabama y Luisiana junto a su marido, John Gregory Dunne. En el transcurso del mismo, pudo entrevistar a desta...

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  • De donde soy
    JOAN DIDION
    De donde soy, de Joan Didion. A través de su muy particular mirada, Didion cuenta en esta historia autobiográfica, aparecida de manera póstuma, la historia de su estado, California; de la llegada de sus antepasados a ese lugar vendido como la Tierra prometida, de su fuerte economía, y al mismo tiempo habla de la emigración, sobre su vida y la ...

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  • Didion: The 1960s & 70s
    Didion, Joan
    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 ...

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  • Play It as It Lays
    Didion, Joan

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  • Lo que quiero decir
    Didion, Joan

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  • Joan Didion
    Didion, Joan / Als, Hilton (ed.)
    In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.Arranged chronologically, the book highlights Didion's fascination with the two coasts that made her. As a Westerner transplanted to New York, Didion was able to look at her native land, it...

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  • South and West
    Didion, Joan
    National Bestseller One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's Bazaar Joan Didion has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. South and West gives us two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. "Notes on the Sou...

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  • Slouching towards bethlehem essays
    Didion, Joan

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  • Political Fictions
    Didion, Joan
    Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals the mechanics of American politics. She tells us the uncomfortable truth about the way we vote, the candidates we vote for, and the people who tell us to vote for them. These pieces build, one on the other, i...

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  • Last Thing He Wanted
    Didion, Joan
    This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion's incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it is covering up.The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebri...

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  • Salvador
    Didion, Joan
    "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...

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  • After Henry
    Didion, Joan
    "We tell ourselves stories in order to live" was the opening line of Joan Didion's celebrated The White Album. In After Henry, her new collection of pieces, most of them reported and written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, she examines, precisely and suggestively, the stories people tell themselves - about murders and earthquakes and wildfires, about presid...

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  • Didion: The 1980s & 90s
    Didion, Joan
    In the 1980s and 1990s, even as successive administrations hailed "morning in America" and "a thousand points of light," Joan Didion brought her brilliant and impeccably stylish prose to bear on the darker truths of American empire. Gathered here for the first time in this second volume of Library of America’s definitive edition are her masterful novels and nonfiction from this...

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