United Kingdom: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012. -. -. Paperback. From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan... More about Blue Nights
United States: Random House USA Inc, 1997. -. -. Paperback. Moving between Honolulu, Jakarta and Saigon, against the historical backdrop of the final withdrawal from Vietnam, this novel is a bitingly funny, cumulatively devastating post-mortem of our national mores and institutions. A U.S. Senator, his wife, senatorial groupies and international... More about Democracy
London, United Kingdom: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011. -. -. Paperback. A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking. It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her, clutches... More about The Last Thing He Wanted
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005. Paperback. A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays" captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui... More about Play It as It Lays
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 38671. Paperback. A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays" captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and... More about Play It as It Lays
New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 2002. -. -. Paperback. National Bestseller 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... More about Political Fictions
Vintage Books: Random House USA Inc, 2002. Paperback. National Bestseller 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... More about Political Fictions
New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 1997. -. Paperback. 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... More about Run River
United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2008. -. -. Paperback. The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects... More about Slouching Towards Bethlehem
London, United Kingdom: HarperCollins, 2017. -. FOURTH ESTATE LTD. Paperback. Joan Didion's savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could... More about Slouching Towards Bethlehem
New York, United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2008. Paperback. The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects... More about Slouching Towards Bethlehem
-: Knopf Publishing Group, 2017. -. First edition, second printing. Hardback. From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always... More about South and West : From a Notebook
United Kingdom: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004. -. -. Paperback. A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's... More about Where I Was From
Vintage Books: Random House USA Inc, 2004. Paperback. 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... More about Where I Was From
United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2009. -. -. Paperback. First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own... More about The White Album: Essays
New York, United States: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her... More about The White Album: Essays
New York, United States: Random House USA Inc, 2007. -. First edition. First printing. Paperback. 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... More about Year of Magical Thinking
New York, United States: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005. Paperback. A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books 2011 One of Esquire's Best Books of 2012 One of TIME's Top 10 Fiction Books of 2012 Here, from the writer described by The Guardian as... More about True Confessions : A Novel
