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Political Fictions
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2001; US$ 16.00In these coolly observant essays, Joan 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." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable sex scandal, Didion reveals... more...
The Year of Magical Thinking
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.95From 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... more...
The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 12.95?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... more...
Vintage Didion
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 10.95Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions. ?Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelist?s appreciation of the surreal.? ? Los Angeles Times Book Review Whether she?s writing about civil war in Central... more...
Blue Nights
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00From 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. ... more...
Where I Was From
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00In 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... more...
Salvador
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror?its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet... more...
Run River
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience,... more...
A Book of Common Prayer
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00Writing 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... more...
The Last Thing He Wanted
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. Suddenly walking off the 1984 campaign, she finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father, Dick... more...









