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The Year of Magical Thinking
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2779-1 (0-7393-2779-8)
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Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-7393-2779-1 (0-7393-2779-8)
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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38641-0 (0-307-38641-4)
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Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38641-0 (0-307-38641-4)
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7843-1 (1-4000-7843-1)
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.
“Thrilling . ... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7843-1 (1-4000-7843-1)
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.
“Thrilling . ... Read more >
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Collected Nonfiction
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 1160 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26487-9 (0-307-26487-4)
Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and... Read more >
Collected Nonfiction
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 1160 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26487-9 (0-307-26487-4)
Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and... Read more >
The Year of Magical Thinking
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4314-9 (1-4000-4314-X)
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.
Several days before... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4314-9 (1-4000-4314-X)
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.
Several days before... Read more >
Where I Was From
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75286-8 (0-679-75286-2)
In 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... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75286-8 (0-679-75286-2)
In 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... Read more >
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Vintage Didion
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3393-5 (1-4000-3393-4)
“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
Joan Didion’s unblinking eye and razor-sharp perceptions of the American scene are exhibited in the essays “Girl of the Golden West,” “In the Realm... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3393-5 (1-4000-3393-4)
“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
Joan Didion’s unblinking eye and razor-sharp perceptions of the American scene are exhibited in the essays “Girl of the Golden West,” “In the Realm... Read more >
Where I Was From
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-43332-3 (0-679-43332-5)
In 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... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-43332-3 (0-679-43332-5)
In 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... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Political Fictions
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71890-8 (0-375-71890-7)
In 1988, Joan Didion began looking at the American political process for The New York Review of Books. What she found was not a mechanism that offered the nation’s citizens a voice in its affairs but one designed by—and for—“that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-71890-8 (0-375-71890-7)
In 1988, Joan Didion began looking at the American political process for The New York Review of Books. What she found was not a mechanism that offered the nation’s citizens a voice in its affairs but one designed by—and for—“that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the... Read more >
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Miami
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-78180-6 (0-679-78180-3)
It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro’s enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-78180-6 (0-679-78180-3)
It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro’s enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder... Read more >
The Last Thing He Wanted
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75285-1 (0-679-75285-4)
This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion’s incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75285-1 (0-679-75285-4)
This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion’s incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it... Read more >
Democracy
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75485-5 (0-679-75485-7)
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband’s handler would like the press to forget that Inez’s... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75485-5 (0-679-75485-7)
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband’s handler would like the press to forget that Inez’s... Read more >
A Book of Common Prayer
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75486-2 (0-679-75486-5)
Writing 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... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75486-2 (0-679-75486-5)
Writing 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... Read more >
Run River
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75250-9 (0-679-75250-1)
Joan Didion’s electrifying first novel begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River—a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic and beautifully nuanced work of fiction. Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-75250-9 (0-679-75250-1)
Joan Didion’s electrifying first novel begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River—a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic and beautifully nuanced work of fiction. Read more >
Salvador
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75183-0 (0-679-75183-1)
Didion turns her powers of observation to El Salvador in the early 1980s, delivering a devastating anatomy of that country’s particular brand of terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and its intimate relation to our own country’s foreign policy. As Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps; interviews a puppet president; and considers the... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-75183-0 (0-679-75183-1)
Didion turns her powers of observation to El Salvador in the early 1980s, delivering a devastating anatomy of that country’s particular brand of terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and its intimate relation to our own country’s foreign policy. As Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps; interviews a puppet president; and considers the... Read more >
After Henry
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 27, 1993
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74539-6 (0-679-74539-4)
In her latest forays into the American scene, Didion covers ground from Washington and New York to California, uncovering the mythic narratives that elude other observers. She examines the fantasies the media constructs around crime victims and presidential candidates; she offers new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty... Read more >
Written by Joan Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 27, 1993
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74539-6 (0-679-74539-4)
In her latest forays into the American scene, Didion covers ground from Washington and New York to California, uncovering the mythic narratives that elude other observers. She examines the fantasies the media constructs around crime victims and presidential candidates; she offers new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty... Read more >
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