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(0)Joan Didion
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Language
English
Description
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 that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
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 pieces written 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
Pub. Date
2017
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...
7) De donde soy
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atras, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ato gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploracion de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que creci [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medida que todavia hoy solo les hago frente de refilon», decia Didion sobre un libro tan...