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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatter ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
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. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
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Category: Auto/Biography
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
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Category: Auto/Biography
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. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Play It As It Lays (Collins Modern Classics) by Joan Didion
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking.One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what 'nothing' means, and keep on playingSomewhere out beyond Hollywood, hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeth's life plays out in a ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$39.95 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Didion is a writer's writer, admired and adored by a horde of famous magazine, film and book writers who continue to publicise her work. Didion is 'the First Lady of journalism' (The Observer) First published 2005. ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
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 for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Auto/Biography | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
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