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Blue Nights by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter's death. 'Blue Nights' is a shatter ...Show more
Joan Didion: The Last Interview, and Other Conversations by Joan Didion
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, and much more. Didion rose to prominence with her non ...Show more
Joan Didion: What She Means by Joan Didion ; Hilton Als (Editor); Connie Butler (Editor); Ann Philbin (Introduction by); Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi
$85.00 AUD
Category: Art
An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion's life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics - including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger, Vija Celmins and Andy Warhol. In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer a ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Miami by Joan Didion
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
An astonishing account of Cuban exiles, CIA informants, and cocaine traffickers in Florida by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West.In Miami, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking looks beyond postcard images of fluorescent waters, backlit islands, and ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her pers ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$33.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
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