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(0)Joan Didion
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Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that 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
3) Blue nights
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 126 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays, and copies of articles. "Notes on the South" traces a road trip she took with her husband John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with prominent local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage seem to suggest...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 149 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieceswritten in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008, c1968
Physical Desc
xiv, 238 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, Didion explores subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, along with the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.