We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction b

Description: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion, John Leonard Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description For the first time, all of Didions nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume. Publisher Description Seven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: including the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From.As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.Joan Didions incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection.Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. The White Album covers the revolutionary politics and the "contemporary wasteland" of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. Salvador is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. Miami exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In After Henry Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in Political Fictions–on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and "compassionate conservatism," among others–show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in Where I Was From Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream."Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the authors life and times. Author Biography JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didions other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996). Didions first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundations Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didions distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists." In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USAs Lifetime Achievement Award.Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means." She died in December 2021. Details ISBN 0307264874 ISBN-13 9780307264879 Title We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live Author Joan Didion, John Leonard Format Hardcover Year 2006 Pages 1160 Publisher Random House USA Inc GE_Item_ID:118224773; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! 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Book Title: We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Number of Pages: 1160 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2006

Item Height: 2 in

Topic: Women Authors, General, Journalism, Essays

Genre: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections

Item Weight: 34.9 Oz

Author: Joan Didion

Item Length: 8.3 in

Item Width: 5.4 in

Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

Format: Hardcover