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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatter ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
37.00 NZD
Category: Essays | 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
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
32.99 NZD
Category: Essays
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
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
The White Album by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Essays
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
34.00 NZD
35.00 (2% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed o ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
22.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
47.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Didion is a writer's writer, admired and adored by a horde of famous magazine, film and book writers who continue to publicise her work. Didion is 'the First Lady of journalism' (The Observer) First published 2005. ...Show more
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
24.99 NZD
27.95 (10% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's words, 'represents an exploration into my own confusions about ...Show more
Where I Was from:A Memoir by Joan Didion
34.99 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Fiction
A stunning memoir of the history of a family and the history of a country, from one of the greatest American writers of the century.In this moving and unexpected book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and America
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