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Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.
Joan Didion’s Where I Was From, Political Fictions, The Last Thing He Wanted, After Henry, Miami, Democracy, Salvador, A Book of Common Prayer, and Run River are available in Vintage paperback.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
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. Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $14.95
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. Read more >
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Format: Hardcover, 1160 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $30.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 1160 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $30.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
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Where I Was From
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $13.95
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality.
Combining history and reportage, memoir and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $13.95
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality.
Combining history and reportage, memoir and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $23.95
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $23.95
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 >
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The Last Thing He Wanted
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $13.95
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Contra in 1984), and fashions a moral thriller as hypnotic and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 2, 1997
Price: $13.95
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Contra in 1984), and fashions a moral thriller as hypnotic and... Read more >
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A Book of Common Prayer
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 11, 1995
Price: $14.95
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 >
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Vintage Didion
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“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
Whether she’s writing about civil... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
“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
Whether she’s writing about civil... Read more >
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Salvador
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $12.95
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.
As ash travels from... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $12.95
"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.
As ash travels from... Read more >
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Run River
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $14.00
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 26, 1994
Price: $14.00
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue... Read more >
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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $12.00
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $12.00
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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After Henry
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 27, 1993
Price: $14.95
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 27, 1993
Price: $14.95
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the... Read more >
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Political Fictions
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.00
In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.00
In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns, one presidential impeachment, and an unforgettable... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Democracy
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $13.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $13.95
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 >
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $23.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $23.95
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 >
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Miami
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $12.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $12.95
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 >
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Where I Was From
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $23.00
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2003
Price: $23.00
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $15.00
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 >
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The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.00
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a... Read more >
Format: eBook, 80 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $12.00
“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .”
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Political Fictions
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $14.00
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 >
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $14.00
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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