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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Jack Lovett has a brief fling with 17-year-old Inez Christian; Inez marries a U.S. Senator, but she and Jack meet periodically over the years, all over the world, and eventually run off together. Set during the Vietnam War, Joan Didion's novel is about not only human relations but also the failures of democracy.
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.
Joan Didion looks beyond the Miami of tourism, nightlife, drugs, and glitz to tell the story of the angry, insular, and vocal Castro-hating Cuban exiles there. She also writes about the role the city has played in American politics since the days of the Cold War, and tackles the legendary corruption of the city government and its shameful history ...
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.
In her fifth novel, set in 1984, Joan Didion writes about a wealthy Washington reporter named Elena McMahon who impulsively travels to Florida to see her father, an arms dealer, who is ill. There she faces a complex, shady, and dangerous world when she allows herself to get involved in a scheme to run American arms to Central America--a situation ...
"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 ...
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.
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 ...
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], ...
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 ...
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 ...
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