Joan Didion
1) Blue nights
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Pub. Date
2011
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In this memoir, the author shares her 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. It opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood,...
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"From 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."--Amazon.com.
3) Joan Didion: the 1980s & 90s : Salvador ; Democracy ; Miami ; After Henry ; The last thing he wanted
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Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
840 pages ; 21 cm.
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"In the 1980s and 1990s, even as successive administrations hailed "morning in America" and "a thousand points of light," Joan Didion brought her brilliant and impeccably stylish prose to bear on the darker truths of American empire. Gathered here for the first time in this second volume of Library of America's definitive edition are her masterful novels and nonfiction from this period, five complete book-length works. "Terror," Didion writes in Salvador...
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"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;...
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Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2017
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The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times).
Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature’s most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic.
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Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of nonfiction from one of American literature’s most distinctive prose stylists is a modern classic.
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Everyman's library volume no. 304
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 1122 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic essays, including the title piece, which will transport the listener back to a unique time and place: the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
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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, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
With a forward...
With a forward...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 164 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both. Didion rose to prominence with her nonfiction collection, Slouching towards Bethlehem, and she quickly became the writer who captured the zeitgeist of the washed-out, acid hangover ofthe 60s. But as a bicoastal writer of fiction and nonfiction whose writing ranged from personal essays and raw, intimate memoirs to reportage on international affairs and social justice, Didion is...
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Library of America volume 325
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 970 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first...
17) The white album
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2009.
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222 pages ; 21 cm.
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Contains essays in which journalist Joan Didion writes about people, places, and events of the 1960s and 70s, including the Manson family, the John Paul Getty museum, and others
18) A star is born
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
19) True confessions
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.