Joan Didion : : the 1960S & 70s : Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play it as it Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, The White Album
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Run river -- Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Play it as it lays -- A book of common prayer -- The white album.
"Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniable. Whether writing fiction, memoir, or trailblazing journalism, her gifts for narrative and dialogue, and her intimate but detached authorial persona, have won her legions of readers and admirers. Now Library of America launches its multi-volume edition of Didion's collected writings, prepared in consultation with the author, that brings together her fiction and nonfiction for the first time. Collected in this first volume are Didion's five iconic books from the 1960s and 1970s: Run River, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It As It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, and The White Album. Whether writing about countercultural San Francisco, the Las Vegas wedding industry, Lucille Miller, Charles Manson, or the shopping mall, Didion achieves a wonderful negative sublimity without condemning her subjects or condescending to her readers. Chiefly about California, these books display Didion's genius for finding exactly the right language and tone to capture America's broken twilight landscape at a moment of headlong conflict and change." -- Provided by publisher.
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Library of America
325
PUBLISHED
[New York, N.Y.] : The Library of America, [2019]
Year Published: 2019
Description: 970 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781598536454
1598536451
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ulin, David L.,
SUBJECTS
Didion, Joan -- Criticism and interpretation.
American essays -- 20th century.
American fiction -- 20th century.