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A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
$43.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming nove ...Show more
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
$49.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding h ...Show more
Democracy by Joan Didion
$42.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: good
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 at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, D ...Show more
Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (LOA #325) by Joan Didion
$86.73 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
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 five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailbla ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
Joan Didion: the 1980s And 90s Salvador / Democracy / Miami / after Henry / the Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; David L. Ulin (Editor)
$73.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
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 novels from mid-career This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
$32.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Live and Learn by Joan Didion
$30.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Reading Level: very good
Live and Learn comprises three of the personal essay collections that established Joan Didion as a major figure in the modern canon ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂàarranged in chronological order so that readers can appreciate not only the ...Show more
Miami by Joan Didion
$28.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West.In Miami, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and ...Show more
Miami by Joan Didion
$32.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Classics of Reportage S.
Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms - travel essay, narrative history, autobiography - but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know.
Political Fictions by Didion, Joan
$38.95 NZD
Category: Politics
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 ops of three presidential campaigns, one ...Show more
Run River by Joan Didion
$42.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 t ...Show more