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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
The essays in Joan Didion's first--and groundbreaking--collection are mostly about the phenomena of the 1960's: the hippie world of Haight-Ashbury (the title essay), the politics of...... read more
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Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
Maria Wyeth, an actress in Los Angeles, is stumbling through her life after the trauma of an abortion that was forced on her by her husband. Her marriage ends, as does the love affair...... read more
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The White Album
Joan Didion
Joan Didion's second book of essays, written in her now - celebrated cool, minimalist prose, covers such topics as Janis Joplin, the Doors, Huey Newton, the Manson Family, Roman Polanski,...... read more
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Where I Was from
Joan Didion
Joan Didion, a California native who has defected to New York, refuses to buy into the stereotype of California as a paradise: she takes a long, hard look at her native state and finds...... read more
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Salvador
Joan Didion
Joan Didion spent two weeks in El Salvador in 1982, and used her observations and interviews as the basis for this bleak, vivid, and macabre portrait of the country in the grip of...... read more
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The Last Thing He Wanted
Joan Didion
In her fifth novel, set in 1984, Joan Didion writes about a wealthy Washington reporter named Elena McMahon who impulsively travels to Florida to see her father, an arms dealer, who...... read more
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After Henry
Joan Didion
This 1992 collection of Joan Didion's, essays, originally published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, are set in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, and are primarily...... read more
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Miami
Joan Didion
Joan Didion looks beyond the Miami of tourism, nightlife, drugs, and glitz to tell the story of the angry, insular, and vocal Castro - hating Cuban exiles there. She also writes about...... read more
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Political Fictions
Joan Didion
Joan Didion's essays reflect the years 1988 to 2000, and deal with such topics as Iran-contra, Newt Gingrich, the literary career of Bob Woodward, and the Lewinsky scandal. read more
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Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion
Charlotte Douglas, an American women, travels to Boca Grande, a fictional Central American country, hoping to find her estranged daughter Marin, a radical on the run. In Boca Grande,...... read more
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Play It as It Lays, a Novel
Joan Didion
Maria Wyeth, an actress in Los Angeles, is stumbling through her life after the trauma of an abortion that was forced on her by her husband. Her marriage ends, as does the love affair...... read more
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