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Joan Didion
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.
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For the first time, all of Didion’s nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume.
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A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Albumand The Year of Magical Thinking.
A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.
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From one of America’s iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved…
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The first non-fiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, _Slouching Towards Bethlehem _remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America…
In this Conradian masterpiece of American innocence and evil set in the fictional Central American country of Boca Grande, two American women face the harsh realities, political and personal, of…
Originally published in 1979 by Simon & Schuster –T.p. verso.