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Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers. Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de force from one of our greatest writers.

This volume of Joan Didion pieces gets its title because its contents have been published by Random House in its Vintage imprint. Essentially, the selections are all examples of her political reporting, culled from the period beginning with Ronald Reagan and ending with George W. Bush and 9/11. In addition to essays, Didion's fiction is represented, with excerpts from SALVADOR and MIAMI.

Premio Nacional de Estados Unidos a la “mejor obra de no-ficción” de 2005. Un libro prodigioso por su sinceridad y pasión conmovedoras, escrito por una de las más emblemáticas escritoras norteamerica

Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later the night before New Year''s Eve the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of 40 years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book 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.

A recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years'. She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana: adoption, depression, alcoholism, anxiety, guilt. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father, her early tendency to anticipate catastrophe and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, 'what its been worth'. The analysis would continue for more than a decade.Didions journal was crafted with the singular intelligence, precision, and elegance that characterize all of her writing. It is an unprecedently intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.

Livro póstumo inédito da brilhante autora de O ano do pensamento mágico e Noites azuis.Em novembro de 1999, Joan Didion começou a frequentar um psiquiatra e, por vários meses, descreveu suas sessões

Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart.Here are subjects Didion has long written about - the press, politics, California robber baronsac, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.

Una recopilación de los cuadernos inéditos de Joan Didion, escritos en los setenta durante un viaje en coche por el sur de Estados Unidos, que resultan casi proféticos a la luz de la actualidad norteamericana. Joan Didion siempre ha conservado sus cuadernos de notas, con dialogos cazados al vuelo, observaciones, entrevistas y borradores de sus articulos. En el verano de 1970, la autora completo uno de estos cuadernos relatando su experiencia durante un roadtrip por Misisipi, Alabama y Luisiana junto a su marido, John Gregory Dunne. En el transcurso del mismo, pudo entrevistar a destacadas personalidades locales, cuyas preocupaciones por cuestiones de raza, clase y herencia daban cuenta de un pais que se ahogaba en su propio pasado. El resultado son unas agudas y cortantes anotaciones sobre ese Sur retrogrado, notas que, a la luz de las actuales dinamicas del panorama politico, social y cultural de la era Trump, cobran un sentido casi profetico. Como polo opuesto a esa experiencia sureña, Sur y Oeste termina con las notas californianas de 1976, que empezaron como un encargo de Rolling Stone para cubrir el juicio contra Patty Hearst. Aunque Didion nunca llego a escribir el articulo, si que vivio en San Francisco y asistio al juicio, experiencia que le hizo reflexionar sobre los Hearst, sus años de formacion en Sacramento y un Oeste que, al contrario del Sur, siempre ha mirado al futuro.La critica ha dicho:El talento visual de Joan Didion es fulminante: todos los datos reveladores de una escena saltan de la escritura como una imagen fotografica [...]. Y el libro, con toda su perspicacia y su belleza de escritura, es de una contemporaneidad escalofriante.Antonio Muñoz Molina, El Pais Incluso estas notas escritas a toda prisa brillan con la habilidad caracteristica de Didion para capturar el estado de animo y el lugar. Sur y Oeste es extrañamente profetico; señala no solo el camino que tomara como escritora, sino tambien el destino que le esperara al pais en los proximos años.Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Leyendo estas notas de campo de Didion de hace cuarenta años, uno aprende mas sobre el futuro de America que leyendo el periodico de mañana.Esquire El poder de la obra de Didion -su habilidad para articular con precision sentimientos, atmosferas y trasfondos- se muestra de forma notable en este delgado volumen.Booklist ¿Que tiene exactamente Didion que no tenga nadie mas que hace que despierte una fascinacion casi unanime?Aloma Rodriguez, Letras Libres

A memoir of land family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America In this moving and surprising book Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life her work her history and America s Where I Was From in Didion s words represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely The book is a haunting narrative of how her own family moved west with the frontier from the birth of her great great great great great grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to the death of her mother on the edge of the Pacific in 2001 of how the wagon train stories of hardship and abandonment and endurance created a culture in which survival would seem the sole virtue Didion examines how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of the California settlement led to the California we know today a state mortgaged first to the railroad then to the aerospace industry and overwhelmingly to the federal government Joan Didion s unerring sense of America and its spirit her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercel

An extraordinary previously unpublished work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights Joan Didion

Un relato autobiográfico lleno de dolor y de belleza sobre la muerte de su hija, por la autora de El año del pensamiento mágico. «Durante las noches azules uno piensa que el día no se va a acabar nun

Elogiada por Tennessee Williams y Joyce Carol Oates, recuperamos la mejor novela de Joan Didion. «Un logro extraordinario».Los Angeles Times Una liturgia común (1977), la novela más lograda de Joan

Una colección atemporal de algunos de los primeros artículos y crónicas de la icónica escritora y periodista norteamericana. «Una excelente introducción a la aguda mirada de Didion sobre la vida esta

Ao matrimonio de escritores, xornalistas e guionistas formado por Joan Didion e John Gregory Dunne fáltanlle uns días para celebrar os corenta anos de casados. Pasan malos momentos: a súa filla, Quintana, esta en coma na UCI por unha gripe que se complicou gravemente. Unha noite, tras visitala no hospital, sentan a cear no seu apartamento neoiorquino e un infarto fulminante acaba coa vida de Dunne. NO ano do pensamento maxico Didion tenta buscarlle sentido ao sucedido, estudalo desde todas as perspectivas ao seu alcance para asimilalo e recompoñer corpo e alma. O resultado e un sagaz estudo do do en que milleiros de lectores se viron uou se veran, avisa Didionu reflectidos no transo de perder un ser querido.

Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, autora de El año del pensamiento mágico, narradas con la inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva que caracteriza su obra. «Irresi

From one of our most powerful writers a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter

Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate.The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. In this now legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche, Didion searches for stories as the Sixties implode. She waits for Jim Morrison to show up, visits the Black Panthers in prison, parties with Janis Joplin and buys dresses with Charles Manson's girls.She and her reader emerge, cauterized, from this devastating tour of that age of self discovery into the harsh light of the morning after.