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THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING PLAYSCRIPT by DIDION JOAN
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and their only daughter into a stunning and powerful one-w ...Show more
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction
A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking. It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp littl ...Show more
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction
This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion's incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it is coverin ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
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Category: New Hardbacks
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
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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Category: Fiction | 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
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Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
White Album: Essays by Joan Didion
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: FSG Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define m ...Show more