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Books by Joan Didion
  | | Slouching Towards Bethlehem(Reprint) Essays (FSG Classics) by Joan Didion Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2008 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53138-6, ISBN: 0-374-53138-2 "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 essen ..." |
 | | Blue Nights(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2012 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38738-7, ISBN: 0-307-38738-0 "A New York Times Notable Book and National BestsellerFrom 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 growing old. ..." |
 | | The White Album Essays (FSG Classics) by Joan Didion Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2009 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53207-9, ISBN: 0-374-53207-9 "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 ..." |
 | | The Year of Magical Thinking(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 227 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-7843-1, ISBN: 1-4000-7843-1 "Year of Magical Thinking Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just weeks after the two of them watched as their only daughter was put into an induced coma to save her life. With honesty and passion, Didion explores this intensely personal yet universal experience. Full description" |
 | | Play It As It Lays(2nd Edition) A Novel (FSG Classics) by Joan Didion, Mr David Thomson Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52994-9, ISBN: 0-374-52994-9 "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 the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after ..." |
 | | Let Me Tell You What I Mean An Essay Collection (Vintage International) by Joan Didion Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2022 by Random House Lcc Us Jan 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-593-31219-3, ISBN: 0-593-31219-8 "" From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one "that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men," these essays are acutely and brilliantly ..." |
 | | We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live(1st Edition) Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library) by Joan Didion, John Leonard, John Leonnard Introduction Hardcover, 1,160 Pages, Published 2006 by Everyman's Library ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26487-9, ISBN: 0-307-26487-4 "Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From. 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 nonfict ..." |
 | | The Year of Magical Thinking(1st Edition) by Joan Didion Hardcover, 227 Pages, Published 2005 by Alfred A. Knopf Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4314-9, ISBN: 1-4000-4314-X "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. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then p ..." |
 | | Political Fictions(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 338 Pages, Published 2002 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-71890-8, ISBN: 0-375-71890-7 "Political Fictions--a collection of eight essays covering US politics between 1988 and 2000--takes a critical look at what author Joan Didion calls "the ways in which the political process did not reflect but increasingly proceeded from a series of fables about American experience". The New York Review of Books originally published these writings and they hit all the major events of the previous dozen years: the election of George Bush ..." |
 | | Blue Nights(1st Edition) by Joan Didion Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26767-2, ISBN: 0-307-26767-9 "From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, 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 Quintana’s wedding in New York ..." |
 | | The Year of Magical Thinking The Play by Joan Didion Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 2007 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38641-0, ISBN: 0-307-38641-4 "“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 ..." |
 | | Where I Was From(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75286-8, ISBN: 0-679-75286-2 "In this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. 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, confusions as much about America as about California, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely.” The book i ..." |
 | | Political Fictions(1st Edition) by Joan Didion Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2001 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-375-41338-4, ISBN: 0-375-41338-3 "Political Fictions--a collection of eight essays covering US politics between 1988 and 2000--takes a critical look at what author Joan Didion calls "the ways in which the political process did not reflect but increasingly proceeded from a series of fables about American experience". The New York Review of Books originally published these writings and they hit all the major events of the previous dozen years: the election of George Bush ..." |
 | | The Last Thing He Wanted(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75285-1, ISBN: 0-679-75285-4 "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 celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wyn ..." |
 | | A Book of Common Prayer(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75486-2, ISBN: 0-679-75486-5 "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 virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too li ..." |
 | | Democracy(Reprint) by Joan Didion Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1995 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75485-5, ISBN: 0-679-75485-7 "Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-tim ..." |
 | | After Henry(1st Edition) by Joan Didion Hardcover, 319 Pages, Published 1992 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-671-72731-4, ISBN: 0-671-72731-1 "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 ..." |
 | | South and West(Reprint) From a Notebook (Vintage International) by Joan Didion Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2018 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-525-43419-1, ISBN: 0-525-43419-4 "National Bestseller One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's BazaarJoan 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 South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Grego ..." |
 | | South and West(1st Edition) From a Notebook by Joan Didion Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2017 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3279-0, ISBN: 1-5247-3279-6 "From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husba ..." |
 | | The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-00-721685-7, ISBN: 0-00-721685-8 "From one of America's iconic writers, 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. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into an ..." |
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