Joan Didion, Author . Knopf $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-41338-4
Eight essays by noted novelist and nonfiction writer Didion (The Last Thing He Wanted,
etc.), many originally published either in whole or in part in the New York Review of Books,
cover politics from 1988 through the 2000 election. At her best,...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author . Knopf $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-43332-3
California comes under Didion's captivating, merciless microscope in her controversial look at the greed, acquisitiveness and wasteful extravagance lurking beneath the state's eternal sunshine. In admirably lean, piercing prose, she...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author . Knopf $23.95 (227p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4314-9
Many will greet this taut, clear-eyed memoir of grief as a long-awaited return to the terrain of Didion's venerated, increasingly rare personal essays. The author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem
and 11 other works chronicles the year following...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author , read by Barbara Caruso. HighBridge Audio $26.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-005-3
After her husband's fatal heart attack, which came at a time when their daughter Quintana was in intensive care for complications after pneumonia, Didion was labeled "a pretty cool customer" by a social worker because she seemed to be...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author Alfred A Knopf Inc $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43331-6
Brilliantly written and flawlessly structured, Didion's first work of fiction since 1984's Democracy employs her trademark barbed-wire prose to tell a highly elliptical tale of political intrigue. Elena McMahon, a middle-aged woman of substantial...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author Vintage Books USA $16.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-74539-6
One of America's premier essayists discusses Patty Hearst, the Central Park ogger, the 1988 Hollywood writers' strike, Reagan and Bush. (May)
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-75285-1
A political reporter doing her father a favor ends up caught in a tropical conspiracy. (Sept.)
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author Pocket Books $7.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66820-4
PW reported that Didion's style, ``while it suffers overload, will delight her readers as she swims in the mainstream of the growing run of `Miami' books.'' She portrays today's Miami as a hotbed of conspiracy and endless meetings among wealthy...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-72731-4
In her first collection of essays since The White Album , Didion takes a look at the 1980s with her trademark style--at once languid and piercing--intact. Named for her former editor, the late Henry Robbins, who gave his writers ``the image of self...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion. Knopf, $25.00 (208p) ISBN 978-0-307-26767-2
Loss has pursued author Didion relentlessly, and in this subtly crushing memoir about the untimely death of her daughter, Quintana Roo (1966–2005), coming on the heels of The Year of Magical Thinking, which chronicled the sudden death of her husband,
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion. Knopf, $21 (144p) ISBN 978-1-524-73279-0
Even in raw form, Didion’s (Blue Nights) voice surpasses other writers’ in “elegance and clarity,” Nathaniel Rich astutely observes in his introduction to Didion’s notebooks from her 1970 trip to Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi and much shorter...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion, read by Kimberly Farr. Random House Audio, unabridged, four CDs, 4.5 hrs., $25 ISBN 978-0-307-94081-0
Kimberly Farr turns in a solid performance in this audio edition of Didion’s haunting memoir of her daughter Quintana Roo’s illness and death. The book is a sequel of sorts to Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking—about the unexpected death of her...
READ FULL REVIEW
Joan Didion. Knopf, $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-593-31848-5
This wide-ranging essay collection from Didion (South and West: From a Notebook) showcases her strengths as a short form writer. Organized chronologically from 1968 to 2000, the pieces trace Didion’s development as an essayist and offer glimpses of...
READ FULL REVIEW
ARTICLES
