We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard - Hardcover

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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard - Hardcover

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard - Hardcover

by Joan Didion
$45.00
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Book Overview

Seven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking including the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.

As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.

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 captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions--on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others--show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream."

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
ISBN9780307264879
Author Joan Didion
PublisherEveryman's Library
GenreEducation and Literature
FormatHardcover
PublishedOctober 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages1160
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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By Joan Didion

About Joan Didion

Joan Didion (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 Vogue, Mademoiselle, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and National Review, establishing herself as a prominent member of the New Journalism movement. Her books include The White Album, Play It As It Lays, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, Didion's revelatory memoir The Year of Magical Thinking 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 Panic in Needle Park with Al Pacino, the second remake of A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and an adaptation of her own Play It As It Lays with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins.

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