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Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2005
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Summary: ""Life changes fast. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2005
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Summary: An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper One, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: "A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEADBEATER, CORY LEADidion, Joan
Summary: "Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 DIDDean, Michelle
Summary: Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm—these brilliant women are the central figures of Sharp. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of America in the twentieth century, arguing as fervently with each other as they did with the sexist attitudes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2018
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Summary: "Faced with the deaths of her husband and her only child within a two-year span, Joan Didion confronted a grief that 'none of us know until we reach it.' Two of her finest works, 'The year of magical thinking' (a winner of the National Book Award) and 'Blue nights,' chart this experience with startling honesty. These unforgettable memoirs, and the dramatic adaptation 'The year of magical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2024
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Summary: This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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Summary: Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf
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Summary: The author recounts her 1982 visit to El Salvador and describes the terror, fear and political repression that permeated the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.84 DIDAnolik, Lili
Summary: "Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in a closet in the back of an apartment full of wrack, ruin, and filth was a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. These boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside: journals, photos, scrapbooks, manuscripts, letters. No: inside a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner
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Summary: "In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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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 anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana's childhood, in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2011