Joan Didion

• Mar-1961
• / Contemporary Romance
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Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the ...

• May-1968
• / General Fiction
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The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivot...

• Mar-1977
• / Contemporary Romance
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A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean"[Didion's] most ambiti...

• Jun-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyon...

• Apr-1984
• / Contemporary Romance
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean -- a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and ...

• Oct-1987
• / Contemporary Romance
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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 p...

• May-1993
• / General Fiction
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In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives ...

• Sep-1996
• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Didion at her finest" -- USA Today • An intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and getting hands a little dirty in the process, complete with conspiracies, arms dealing, a...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2006
• / Political Thriller
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Read the works discussed in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.

Includes seven books in one volume: the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fict...

• Apr-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2011
• / Literary
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didio...

• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly...

• / General Fiction
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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 o...