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Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller's famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. \u003ci\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, \"one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort of \"novel\" that is a mixture of novel, autobiography, social criticism, philosophical reflection, surrealist free association, and mysticism, one that is distinctly always about and expressive of the real-life Henry Miller and yet is also fictional. His most characteristic works of this kind are \u003ci\u003eTropic of Cancer\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), \u003ci\u003eBlack Spring\u003c\/i\u003e (1936), and \u003ci\u003eTropic of Capricorn\u003c\/i\u003e (1939). 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This \"daughter of the wasteland\" is here to show us that her city is no wasteland at all but a glowing landscape of swaying fruit trees and blooming bougainvillea, buffeted by earthquakes and the Santa Ana winds--and every bit as seductive as she is. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEve Babitz\u003c\/b\u003e (1943-2021) was the author of several books of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eSex and Rage: Advice to Young Ladies Eager for a Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eL.A. Woman\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eBlack Swans: Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. Her nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003eFiorucci, The Book\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTwo by Two: Tango, Two-Step, and the L.A. Night\u003c\/i\u003e. She has written for publications including \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e and in the late 1960s designed album covers for the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Linda Ronstadt. 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Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the fulfillment of nostalgia, the pink sunsets and the palm trees that are L.A. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEve Babitz was born and grew up in Hollywood. She began to write in 1972 after designing album covers for such artists as Linda Ronstadt, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, and Lord Buckley. 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Babitz's talent for the brilliant line, honed to a point, never interferes with her feel for languid pleasures.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, originally published in 1979, about a dreamy young girl moving between the planets of Los Angeles and New York City. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e We first meet Jacaranda in Los Angeles. She's a beach bum, a part-time painter of surfboards, sun-kissed and beautiful. Jacaranda has an on-again, off-again relationship with a married man and glitters among the city's pretty creatures, blithely drinking White Ladies with any number of tycoons, unattached and unworried in the pleasurable mania of California. 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After earning a Bachelor's degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, she started her literary career writing articles and essays for \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, Didion's revelatory memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted as a one-woman stage show starring Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway. She also wrote several screenplays with her husband John Gregory Dunne, including \u003ci\u003ePanic in Needle Park\u003c\/i\u003e with Al Pacino, the second remake of \u003ci\u003eA Star is Born\u003c\/i\u003e with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and an adaptation of her own \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50739327041775,"sku":"9780374529949","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/0832\/1775\/files\/db5XEQKenC9780374529949.webp?v=1789167401"},{"product_id":"slouching-towards-bethlehem-essays-paperback","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Didion's first work of nonfiction, \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered a masterpiece of American literature and the \"foundational text\" of her oeuvre (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). First published in 1968, the book remains a defining work about the Sixties, about California, about America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e More than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion--one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era--captures her focus on time and place at a unique moment in history. Here, Didion explores people and subjects such as John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up in California, the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, and the birth of American counterculture. Didion's work in \u003ci\u003eSlouching\u003c\/i\u003e has become a totem for readers \"who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e). \"In her portraits of people,\" writes the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Didion is not out to expose but to understand.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (\u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) and as a classic of New Journalism, \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e is Didion at her finest.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon its publication in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem confirmed Joan Didion as one of the most prominent writers on the literary scene. Her unblinking vision and deadpan tone have influenced subsequent generations of reporters and essayists, changing our expectations of style, voice, and the artistic possibilities of nonfiction. \u003cbr\u003e\"In her portraits of people,\" \"The New York Times Book Review wrote, \"Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left-wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful. . . . A rare display of some of the best prose written today in this country.\" \u003cbr\u003eIn essay after essay, Didion captures the dislocation of the 1960s, the disorientation of a country shredding itself apart with social change. Her essays not only describe the subject at hand--the murderous housewife, the little girl trailing the rock group, the millionaire bunkered in his mansion--but also offer a broader vision of America, one that is both terrifying and tender, ominous and uniquely her own. \u003cbr\u003eJoyce Carol Oates has written, \"Joan Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever. . . . She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2021) was the National Book Award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, she started her literary career writing articles and essays for \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, Didion's revelatory memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted as a one-woman stage show starring Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway. She also wrote several screenplays with her husband John Gregory Dunne, including \u003ci\u003ePanic in Needle Park\u003c\/i\u003e with Al Pacino, the second remake of \u003ci\u003eA Star is Born\u003c\/i\u003e with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and an adaptation of her own \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.22 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50739327107311,"sku":"9780374531386","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/0832\/1775\/files\/xtqDEcY1ZK9780374531386.webp?v=1789167405"},{"product_id":"the-white-album-paperback","title":"The White Album - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFirst published in 1979, Joan Didion's \u003ci\u003eThe White Album \u003c\/i\u003erecords indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining 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 mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-2021) was the National Book Award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. After earning a Bachelor's degree in English at the University of California, Berkeley, she started her literary career writing articles and essays for \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Saturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement. Her books include \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, Didion's revelatory memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted as a one-woman stage show starring Vanessa Redgrave on Broadway. She also wrote several screenplays with her husband John Gregory Dunne, including \u003ci\u003ePanic in Needle Park\u003c\/i\u003e with Al Pacino, the second remake of \u003ci\u003eA Star is Born\u003c\/i\u003e with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and an adaptation of her own \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 10, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50739327140079,"sku":"9780374532079","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/0832\/1775\/files\/MHY62fyCL89780374532079.webp?v=1789167408"},{"product_id":"the-year-of-magical-thinking-national-book-award-winner-paperback","title":"The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writers\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - One of \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explores how we all, somehow, will ourselves to survive. \"An utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief.\" \u003ci\u003e-The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eS\u003c\/i\u003eeveral days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana Roo, fall ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John suffered a fatal heart attack. In that one moment, their partnership of forty years came to an end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis powerful narrative is Didion's \"attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness...about marriage and children and memory...about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Didion has transformed grief into literature.\" \u003ci\u003e--The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eRun River\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1963. Didion's other novels include \u003ci\u003eA Book of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), \u003ci\u003eDemocracy\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Thing He Wanted \u003c\/i\u003e(1996). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Didion's first volume of essays, \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1968, and her second, \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003eSalvador\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eMiami\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eAfter Henry\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003ePolitical Fictions \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), \u003ci\u003eWe Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eSouth and West \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). Her memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: \"An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion's distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.\" In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDidion said of her writing: \"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.\" She died in December 2021.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 7.95 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50739327336687,"sku":"9781400078431","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/0832\/1775\/files\/9L6TYIBdEC9781400078431.webp?v=1789167423"},{"product_id":"the-world-according-to-joan-didion-hardcover","title":"The World According to Joan Didion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEvelyn McDonnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eINDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions - B\u0026amp;N Best Books of 2023 - \"Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive, and clarifying.\" -- Booklist, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn antidote to a global view that narrows our vision to the smallest screens, The World According To Joan Didion is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didion's prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to \"throw themselves into the convulsions of the world,\" as she once said.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvelyn McDonnell, the acclaimed journalist, essayist, critic, feminist, native Californian, and university professor who regularly teaches Didion's work, is attuned to interpret Didion's vision for readers today. Inspired by Didion's own words--from her works both published and unpublished--and informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, The World According to Joan Didion is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion's eyes and explores her work in chapters keyed to the singular physical motifs of her writing: Snake. Typewriter. Hotel. Notebook. Girl. Etc.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the first books to be published after the revered writer's death in 2021, The World According to Joan Didion is a literary companion for those embarking on new journeys and a guide to innovative ways of being. 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She becomes embroiled in her his business even though \"she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing.\" It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDidion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out how \"spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock.\" As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 covering up. \u003cbr\u003eThe narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. Suddenly walking off the 1984 campaign, she finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father, Dick McMahon. She becomes embroiled in her Dick's business though \"she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing.\" It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined, something that includes Ambassador-at-Large Treat Austin Morrison and Alexander Brokaw, the ambassador to an unnamed Caribbean island. \u003cbr\u003eInto this startling vision of conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations, Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points up how \"spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock.\" As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly. This is our system, the one \"trying to create a context for democracy and getting [its] hands a little dirty in the process.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eRun River\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1963. 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Her memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 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Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From \u003c\/i\u003eexplores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. \u003cbr\u003eCombining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From\" explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. 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A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: \"An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion's distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.\" In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDidion said of her writing: \"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means.\" She died in December 2021.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 14, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50739327729903,"sku":"9780679752868","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0838\/0832\/1775\/files\/rQhLXOLyAg9780679752868.webp?v=1789167458"},{"product_id":"seduction-and-betrayal-women-and-literature-paperback","title":"Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoan Didion\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and \u003ci\u003eSeduction and Betrayal\u003c\/i\u003e, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. 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Lanegan's voice is one of the most distinct and recognizable in rock, but his talents aren't limited to his vocal skills. 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W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar. Hired to track down a derelict author, he ends up on the trail of a girl missing in Haight-Ashbury for a decade. The tense hunt becomes obsessive as Sughrue takes a haunting journey through the underbelly of America's sleaziest nightmares.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by working at a topless bar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas, and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. After serving three years in the U.S. Army and completing college degrees in history (BA, Texas College of Arts and Industries) and creative writing (MFA, University of Iowa), he joined the English faculty at the University of Montana at Missoula. 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