The White Album by Joan Didion (English) Paperback Book

Description: The White Album by Joan Didion Joan Didions hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Joan Didions 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 Mansons 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. Author Biography Joan Didion is one of Americas most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005. Review All the essays manifest not only her intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the readers memory, and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing, and exact. Add to this her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism.NEW YORK TIMESDemonstrates an uncanny ability to capture the insidious and pervasive infections of mind and spirit that have led to both the corruption of government and business, and the withering of the individual.CHICAGO SUN-TIMESEverything Didion writes has a lands end edginess to it – a hyperattentive eye on the dramas found at the outskirts of the human condition. She writes as someone who has come through great shudders of the earth with a fundamental understanding that everything is subject to instantaneous and complete revision.VILLAGE VOICEShe is the best chronicler California hasVOGUESimply an original and unexpected writer who is never banalNEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Promotional The unflinching memoir of counterculture icons during political upheaval Review Quote All the essays manifest not only her intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the readers memory, and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing, and exact. Add to this her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism. NEW YORK TIMES Demonstrates an uncanny ability to capture the insidious and pervasive infections of mind and spirit that have led to both the corruption of government and business, and the withering of the individual. CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Everything Didion writes has a lands end edginess to it - a hyperattentive eye on the dramas found at the outskirts of the human condition. She writes as someone who has come through great shudders of the earth with a fundamental understanding that everything is subject to instantaneous and complete revision. VILLAGE VOICE She is the best chronicler California has VOGUE Simply an original and unexpected writer who is never banal NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Details ISBN0008284687 Author Joan Didion Pages 224 Year 2017 ISBN-10 0008284687 ISBN-13 9780008284688 Format Paperback Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 814.54 Publication Date 2017-11-16 Media Book Language English UK Release Date 2017-11-16 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Alternative 9780006545873 Audience General AU Release Date 2017-12-12 NZ Release Date 2017-12-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:117015704;

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