Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (LOA #341)
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- Hardcover
851 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2021
Summary
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 which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598536836 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1598536834 |
| Author: | Joan Didion, David L. Ulin |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 851 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2021 |
| Weight: | 709g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 131mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Library Of America |
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About The Author
Joan Didion
Joan Didion (1934-2021) was one of the most distinct American literary voices of the last half century. She was the author of five novels and ten books of nonfiction, including Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and mostly recently the New York Times best sellers The Year of Magical Thinking, Blue Nights, South and West, and Let Me tell You What I Mean. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the National Book Foundations’ Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
David L. Ulin is the author or editor of ten books, including Sidewalking- Coming to Terms with Los Angeles; the Library of America’s Writing Los Angeles- A Literary Anthology, which won a California Book Award; and The Lost Art of Reading- Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time. The former book editor and book critic of the Los Angeles Times, he teaches at the University of Southern California.
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