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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live

Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library) (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

By Joan Didion

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| Hardcover | 9780307264879

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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.

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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.

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  • We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction By Joan Didion

    In 1906, in an effort to make attractive, inexpensive editions of literary titles available to more readers, London-based publisher Joseph Malaby Dent established the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics series. Today, the Library boasts a list o ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

  • The Unclosed Circle

    Suppose, then, we imagine a mind always thinking of what it has just done and never of what it is doing, like a song which lags behind its accompaniment. Let us try to picture to ourselves a certain inborn lack of elasticity of both senses and intell ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 1160 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0307264874
  • ISBN-13: 9780307264879
  • Publisher: Everyman's Library
  • Pub date: Oct 17, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
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