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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- ISBN
- 9780307264879
- Book Title
- We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
- Book Series
- Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Women Authors, General, Journalism, Essays
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Item Weight
- 34.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 1160 Pages
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, this collection includes seven books in one volume: 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.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307264874
ISBN-13
9780307264879
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52318221
Product Key Features
Book Title
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, General, Journalism, Essays
Book Series
Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
1160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Height
2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
34.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3554.I33w3 2006
Reviews
"[Didion's is] one of the most recognizable-and brilliant-literary styles to emerge in America during the past four decades . . . [She is] a great American writer." -New York Times Book Review "One beautiful sentence follows another . . . Didion has remained a clearheaded and original writer all her long life." -Newsweek "Her intelligence is as honed as ever . . . Her vision is ice-water clear . . . Didion has captured the mood of America." -New York Times "Many of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didion's] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers." -Chicago Tribune "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion's] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx." -from the Introduction by John Leonard, "[Didion's is] one of the most recognizable-and brilliant-literary styles to emerge in America during the past four decades . . . [She is] a great American writer." - New York Times Book Review "One beautiful sentence follows another . . . Didion has remained a clearheaded and original writer all her long life." - Newsweek "Her intelligence is as honed as ever . . . Her vision is ice-water clear . . . Didion has captured the mood of America." - New York Times "Many of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didion's] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers." - Chicago Tribune "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion's] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx." -from the Introduction by John Leonard
Table of Content
Introduction by John Leonard Select Bibliography Chronology Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions Where I Was From Notes to Miami Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-041043
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Dewey Edition
22
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