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1	The Year of Magical Thinking more books like this by Joan Didion In THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, Joan Didion writes an account of her life since the 2003 death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Didion's grief was profound and debilitating; she and Dunne had been married for nearly 40 years, during which they were hardly ever apart. But in the course of her mourning period, she also gained crucial insights ... see all copies from £3.70! new only from £6.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Slouching Towards Bethlehem more books like this by Joan Didion This collection of essays takes the reader on a psychological tour of the intense, wayward, violent, not a little crazy America of the 1960s. Surfers, students, deadheads and druggies; Joan Baez, Dean Martin, Howard Hughes and John Wayne - all emerge from Didion's gaze just that little bit weirder, that little bit more American. Joan Didion has ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays more books like this by Joan Didion Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, ... see all copies from £6.28! new only from £6.81! \| first editions
4	White Album more books like this by Joan Didion This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. Didion observes the dramas that explode as America goes into collective detox: the mother abandoning her five-year-old daughter on the central reservation of Interstate 5; Huey Newton and the Black ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Miami more books like this by Joan Didion The subject of this study is the relationship between the Cuban exiles of Miami and the United States. Miami is a city on the fringe of Latin America where Spanish is almost the first language and the local politics, gun running, cocaine dealing and vendettas are those of Central America. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	A book of common prayer more books like this by Joan Didion In this Conradian masterpiece of American innocence and evil set in the fictional Central American country of Boca Grande, two American women face the harsh realities, political and personal, of living on the edge in a land with an uncertain future. Writing with her signature telegraphic swiftness, the author creates a terrifying commentary on an ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £9.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Salvador more books like this by Joan Didion Joan Didion spent two weeks in El Salvador in 1982, and used her observations and interviews as the basis for this bleak, vivid, and macabre portrait of the country in the grip of civil war. As she describes what it's like there for the average person who is simply struggling to live a normal life in the midst of chaos, Didion captures the mood of ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £7.28! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Play It as It Lays more books like this by Joan Didion Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her personal history. She finds herself radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.99! \| first editions
9	Democracy more books like this by Joan Didion Inez Christian is the wife of a man who wants to be the President of America. She is also the lover of another, who inhabits that mirror world in which national, business and intelligence interests merge. The story moves from Inez's Hawaiian childhood to the smoke-filled rooms of city powerbrokers. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Where I Was from more books like this by Joan Didion Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.39! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction more books like this by Joan Didion For the first time, all of Didion's nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume. see all copies from £10.77! new only from £12.96!
12 view cover	After Henry more books like this by Joan Didion This 1992 collection of Joan Didion's, essays, originally published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, are set in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, and are primarily about politics and current events. They include Didion's thoughts on Patty Hearst, Ronald Reagan, and the 1988 Screen Guild writers' strike. The showpiece is the ... see all copies from £4.85! new only from £9.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Last Thing He Wanted more books like this by Joan Didion Journalist Elena McMahon watches her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her. A desire to understand him impels her to do his bidding, to go into a "situation" in Central Ameria, knowing neither what to expect, what to ask or what to define as achievement. see all copies from £2.10! new only from £5.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Political Fictions more books like this by Joan Didion Joan Didion's essays reflect the years 1988 to 2000, and deal with such topics as Iran-contra, Newt Gingrich, the literary career of Bob Woodward, and the Lewinsky scandal. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.64! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 more books like this by Joan Didion, Frank Rich (Preface by) 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. ""ÝAmericans¨ recognized even then Ýimmediately after 9/11¨, ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.71! \| first editions
16 view cover	Run River more books like this by Joan Didion Joan Didion's electrifying first novel begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River--a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic and beautifully nuanced work of fiction. see all copies from £3.07! new only from £8.67! \| first editions
17	Play It as It Lays by Joan Didion see all copies from £5.54! first editions
18	White Album by Joan Didion see all copies from £5.54! new only from £43.99! \| first editions
19	Play it as it lays, a novel more books like this by Joan Didion Maria Wyeth, an actress in Los Angeles, is stumbling through her life after the trauma of an abortion that was forced on her by her husband. Her marriage ends, as does the love affair she was involved in, and she is unable to prevent the suicide of a good friend. Clinging to her only child, a mentally damaged daughter named Kate, the nihilistic ... see all copies from £5.54! first editions
20	The Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography more books like this by Tony Richardson, Natasha Richardson (Foreword by), Joan Didion (Introduction by) In these memoirs completed before his recent death from AIDS, Richardson focuses on his passion for film and theater. He tells of his marriage to Vanessa Redgrave, affair with Jeanne Moreau, the births of his daughters, travels and many friends, such as Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, and others. Photos. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
21 view cover	Vintage Didion more books like this by Joan Didion This volume of Joan Didion pieces gets its title because its contents have been published by Random House in its Vintage imprint. Essentially, the selections are all examples of her political reporting, culled from the period beginning with Ronald Reagan and ending with George W. Bush and 9/11. In addition to essays, Didion's fiction is ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
22	Slouch Twds Beth more books like this by John Didion The essays in Joan Didion's first--and groundbreaking--collection are mostly about the phenomena of the 1960's: the hippie world of Haight-Ashbury (the title essay), the politics of the peace movement, a Las Vegas wedding. Now considered a classic, SLOUCHING TOWARD BETHLEHEM introduced Didion's trademark style--cool, cerebral, darkly witty--and ... see all copies from £3.61! new only from £66.02!
23	Bk Common Prayer more books like this by Joan Didion Charlotte Douglas, an American women, travels to Boca Grande, a fictional Central American country, hoping to find her estranged daughter Marin, a radical on the run. In Boca Grande, with its volatile political scene, both women are exposed to the upheavals and violence that they had hoped to escape in their personal lives. The story is narrated ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.59!
24	Salvador more books like this by Jane Didion, Joan Didion Joan Didion spent two weeks in El Salvador in 1982, and used her observations and interviews as the basis for this bleak, vivid, and macabre portrait of the country in the grip of civil war. As she describes what it's like there for the average person who is simply struggling to live a normal life in the midst of chaos, Didion captures the mood of ... see all copies from £4.85! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
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