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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | 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
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
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
Miami by Joan Didion
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
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
$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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics and Society
"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
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and 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
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