Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s (Loa #325): Run, River / Slouching Towards Bethlehem / Play It as It Lays / A Book of Common Prayer / The White Album, Didion Joan
Автор: Didion Joan Название: Play It as It Lays ISBN: 0374529949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374529949 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose. Joan Didion is the author of five novels as well as several works of nonfiction, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "The White Album," "Miami," "Salvador," "After Henry," and "Political Fictions." She lives in New York City. A dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays "captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui. Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping. "Play It As It Lays" is set in a place beyond good and evil, literally in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the barren wastes of the Mojave, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul. Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel. "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book."--John Leonard, "The New York Times"" " "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, "Play It As It Lays" is a book of outstanding literary quality."--"Library Journal " " A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust."--J. R. Frakes, "Book World"
Автор: Didion Joan Название: The White Album ISBN: 0374532079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374532079 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание:
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
Автор: Joan Didion Название: Year of Magical Thinking, The ISBN: 0007216858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007216857 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 9670.00 T Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве. Описание: 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 a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Slouching towards bethlehem ISBN: 0008284644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008284640 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Joan Didion`s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: South and west ISBN: 0008257205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008257200 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.
Автор: Didion Joan Название: Slouching Towards Bethlehem ISBN: 0374531382 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374531386 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 11030.00 T Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление. Описание: The first nonfiction 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-- particularly California--in the sixties. It focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. Joan Didion is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry," and "The Year of Magical Thinking." She lives in New York City. Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays--keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district--all reflect how and why things were then, and are now, falling apart in America: "the center cannot hold," as Yeats had warned. An incisive look at contemporary life, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is still admired as a stylistic masterpiece. "Didion is one of the very few writers of our time who approaches her terrible subject with absolute seriousness, with fear and humility and awe. Her powerful irony is often sorrowful rather than clever," as Joyce Carol Oates noted. "She has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control." "A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."--Anne Tyler "In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand, and she shows us actors and millionaires, doomed brides and naive acid-trippers, left wing ideologues and snobs of the Hawaiian aristocracy in a way that makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country."--Dan Wakefield, " The New York Times Book Review" "The story between the lines of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" is surely not so much 'California' as it is Joan Didion's] ability to make us share her passionate sense of it."--Alfred Kazin "A slant vision that is arresting and unique . . . Didion might be an observer from another planet--one so edgy and alert that she ends up knowing more about our own world than we know ourselves."--Anne Tyler
Contents: I. LIFE STYLES IN THE GOLDEN LAND "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" "John Wayne: A Love Song" "Where the Kissing Never Stops" "Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)" "7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38" "California Dreaming" "Marrying Absurd" "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" II. PERSONALS "On Keeping a Notebook" "On Self-Respect" "I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind" "On Morality" "On Going Home" III. SEVEN PLACES OF THE MIND "Notes from a Native Daughter" "Letter from Paradise, 21 19' N., 157 52' W" "Rock of Ages" "The Seacoast of Despair" "Guaymas, Sonora" "Los Angeles Notebook" "Goodbye to All That"
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: The Year of Magical Thinking ISBN: 140004314X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400043149 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 17170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: National Bestseller From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. 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 forty 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."
Автор: Joan Didion Название: A Book of Common Prayer ISBN: 0007415001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007415007 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 7910.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America`s most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil.
Автор: Didion Joan Название: Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays ISBN: 1250160650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250160652 Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS) Рейтинг: Цена: 12260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the "best prose written in this country."
More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion's focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: " Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control."
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Run River ISBN: 0679752501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679752509 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California.
Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: The Year of Magical Thinking ISBN: 1400078431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400078431 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 10420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
National Bestseller
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage--and a life, in good times and bad--that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. 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 forty 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."
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