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Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
$27.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | 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.
Miami by Joan Didion
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics | Reading Level: very good
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 contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
Salvador by Joan Didion
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"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 f ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$33.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
South and West: From a Notebook by Joan Didion
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 kept notebooks: of overheard dialog ...Show more
South and West - From a Notebook by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come 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 kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, dra ...Show more