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    Political Fictions

    Joan Didion

    In these coolly observant essays, Didion looks at the American political process and at that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life.

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    After Henry

    Joan Didion

    In her latest forays into the American scene, the author of Miami, Democracy, and Salvador covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles and from a TV producer’s mansion to the…

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    The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    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…

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    Play It As It Lays

    Joan Didion

    A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Joan Didion

    Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.

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    Joan Didion: The Last Interview: AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS

    Joan Didion

    The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more.

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    Miami

    Joan Didion

    A surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War from one of the…

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    Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Joan Didion

    Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.

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    Where I Was From

    Joan Didion

    A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.

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    Blue Nights

    Joan Didion

    From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.

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    The White Album

    Joan Didion

    Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.

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    The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure…

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    The World According to Joan Didion

    Evelyn McDonnell

    An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices…

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    Joan Didion: What She Means

    Joan Didion, Hilton Als (ed.), Connie Butler (ed.)

    An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion’s life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics – including artists from Helen Lundeberg to…

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    The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir

    Joan Didion

    ‘This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you…

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    Conversations with Joan Didion

    Features seventeen interviews with Joan Didion, spanning decades, continents, and genres. Didion reflects on her childhood in Sacramento; her time at Berkeley, in New York, and in Hollywood; her marriage…

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    Reading Joan Didion

    Lynn M. Houston,William V. Lombardi

    This book is a compelling reference guide for book clubs on the work of Joan Didion, with summaries of her major works and discussion questions.

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    Conversations with Joan Didion

    Collected interviews with the iconic American author spanning decades, continents, and genres

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    Salvador

    Joan Didion

    The author recounts her 1982 visit to El Salvador and describes the terror, fear and political repression that permeated the country.

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    The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir

    Joan Didion

    ‘This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you…

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    Miami

    Joan Didion

    With her usual sharp eye for the realities of American life, Joan Didion explores an American city of glitter and glamour, a city of racial tension and fast money whose…

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    Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Joan Didion

    From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure.

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    Su ultimo deseo / The Last Thing He Wanted

    Joan Didion

    Un oscuro y enigmatico thriller sobre los complots y conspiraciones de la Guerra Fria de la mano de Joan Didion, una de las narradoras mas lucidas de las letras norteamericanas.

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    Salvador

    Joan Didion

    El Salvador, 1982, the height of a ghastly civil war

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    Run River

    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…

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    Where I Was From

    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…

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    A Book of Common Prayer

    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…

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    El ano del pensamiento magico / The Year of the Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    Unas
    memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a traves de la
    experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion.Este
    libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores…

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    Play It as It Lays

    Joan Didion

    A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Albumand The Year of Magical Thinking.

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

    Joan Didion

    The first non-fiction 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…

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    The White Album: Essays

    Joan Didion

    Originally published in 1979 by Simon & Schuster –T.p. verso.

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    Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Joan Didion

    Twelve early pieces never before collected offer an illuminating glimpse intothe mind and process of the bestselling author.

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    Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Joan Didion

    Twelve early pieces never before collected offer an illuminating glimpse intothe mind and process of the bestselling author.

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    Democracy

    Joan Didion

    Moving between Honolulu, Jakarta and Saigon, against the historical backdrop of the final withdrawal from Vietnam, this novel is a bitingly funny, cumulatively devastating post-mortem of our national mores and…

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    The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    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…

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    The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion

    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…

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    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays

    Joan Didion

    Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf.

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    Live and Learn: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the White Album, After Henry

    Joan Didion

    This comprehensive edition brings together for the first time three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental Journeys. Prefaced with a…

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    A Book of Common Prayer

    Joan Didion

    An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that…

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    The Last Thing He Wanted

    Joan Didion

    A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking.

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    Sur y Oeste / South and West

    Joan Didion

    Una recopilacion de los cuadernos ineditos de Joan Didion, escritos en los setenta durante un viaje en coche por el sur de Estados Unidos, que resultan casi profeticos a la…

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    Blue Nights

    Joan Didion

    From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.

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    Joan Didion and the Ethics of Memory

    Dr. Matthew R. McLennan (Saint Paul University, Canada)

    Looking at the breadth of Joan Didion’s writing, from journalism, essays, fiction, memoir and screen plays, it may appear that there is no unifying thread, but Matthew R. McLennan argues…

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    The Critical Response to Joan Didion

    Sharon Felton

    Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary perspectives as well as for philosophical…

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    Joan Didion: Substance and Style

    Kathleen M. Vandenberg

    Explores how Didion’s nonfiction prose style, often lauded for being beautiful and poetic, also works rhetorically.

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    The World According to Joan Didion

    Evelyn McDonnell

    A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions

    "A wonderfully fitting tribute to Joan Didion: one that avoids simple platitudes, approaching the great writer with a fierce, probing intelligence…

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    Joan Didion and the Ethics of Memory

    Dr. Matthew R. McLennan (Saint Paul University, Canada)

    Looking at the breadth of Joan Didion’s writing, from journalism, essays, fiction, memoir and screen plays, it may appear that there is no unifying thread, but Matthew R. McLennan argues…

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