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National Book Award Winner
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion t...
A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir
In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husban...
Essays
Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in Amer...
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and...
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean—a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look...
A Novel
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of con...
A Memoir
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Balti...
An Essay Collection
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 au...
This enhanced eBook edition of Blue Nights includes three short films directed by Griffin Dunne and starring Joan Didion. Each film blends Didion's in...
The iconic writer's electrifying first novel is a story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and susp...
‘The Year of Magical Thinking' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th annivers...
A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-w...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Didion at her finest" —USA Today • An intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and gett...
From a Notebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the America...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary soci...
Unas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a través de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion. Este libro m...
Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its ti...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In these coolly observant essays, the iconic bestselling writer looks at the American political process and at "that handful o...
First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a mosaic" "of the late sixties and seventies. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personaliti...
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times–bestselling author of South and Wes...
from Political Fictions
A Vintage Shorts Selection • Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion’s now-classic report from the Dukakis...
"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 ...
Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
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America Since 9.11
Novelist and essayist Joan Didion writes about the refusal of Americans to openly discuss and debate the Bush administration's new unilateralism towar...
A memoir of the history of a family and the history of a country from one of the most renowned American writers of the century. In this book, Joan Did...
The perfect introduction to one of our greatest modern writers: Joan Didion "has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian...
Summary: Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana's wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding an...
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics--includin...
Essays & Conversations
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The Play
A one-woman play based on the author's memoir with the same title, which recounts her grieving the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and, late...
Live and Learn comprises three of the personal essay collections that established Joan Didion as a major figure in the modern canon ? arranged in chro...
Una recopilación de los cuadernos inéditos de Joan Didion, escritos en los setenta durante un viaje en coche por el sur de Estados Unidos, que resul...
Run River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It As It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album
Library of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her fi...
Salvador / Democracy / Miami / After Henry / The Last Thing He Wanted
Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and n...
Collected Nonfiction
This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You Wha...
Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C.S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
"In Companionship in Grief, Jeffrey Berman focuses on the most life-changing event for many people---the death of a spouse. Some of the most acclaimed...