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• Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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  Collects essays on such diverse topics as John Wayne, the Haight-Asbury culture, and the Newport mansions.

• The Year of Magical Thinking

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  An autobiographical portrait of marriage and motherhood by the acclaimed author details her struggle to come to terms with life and death, illness, sanity, personal upheaval, and grief.

• Let Me Tell You What I Mean

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  A volume of 12 previously uncollected early pieces shares insights into the author's evolving literary style and includes reflections on such topics as a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a Vegas WWI veteran reunion and a visit to San Simeon.

• Play It as It Lays

  a Novel

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• South and West

  From a Notebook

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  Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks by the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking offer insights into her literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Nights

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  Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.

• A Book of Common Prayer

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  The disappearance of her politically active daughter, forces Charlotte to abandon her apathetic, comfortable existence and become involved in the dangerous politics of a South American nation.

• Where I Was From

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  The essayist explores American ideals of independence and self-reliance by probing her own life and those of her relatives, discussing how the character of California's settlers created the state as it exists today.

• Collected Essays

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  Three essential works that redefined the art of journalism by “one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers” (The New York Times).

• Salvador

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

• Conversations With Joan Didion

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  Conversations with Joan Didion features seventeen interviews with the author, spanning decades, continents, and genres.

• We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

  Collected Nonfiction

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  A compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including such topics as Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Joan Didion

  the 1980's & 90's : Salvador ; Democracy ; Miami ; After Henry ; The Last Thing He Wanted

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  Marking the extraordinary mid-career evolution of one of the most dynamic writers of our time, this second volume in the series includes two novels and three essay collections in which she extended the compass of her remarkable journalist eve.

• Political Fictions

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  A compilation of political essays originally written for "The New York Review of Books" from 1988 to 2000 explores the nature of American politics and political figures and the role of the media in transforming the American political landscape.

• After Henry

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  A bracing amalgam of skepticism and sympathy, After Henry is further proof of Joan Didion's infallible radar for the true spirit of our age.

• Run River

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  Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, the great-grandchildren of California pioneers, become involved in murder and betrayal.