We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What...
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Author: Joan Didion
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard by Didion, Joan

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Dhs. 213.02

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Dhs. 213.02
Author: Joan Didion
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.

As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.

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 lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions-on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream.

Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 10/17/2006
Pages: 1160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9780307264879


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/15/2006 pg. 60
New York Review of Books 04/26/2007 pg. 16
Newsweek 12/01/2008 pg. 12
Village Voice 03/25/2009 pg. 38

About the Author
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.

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