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Essays & Correspondence
New York Times Bestseller: An "elegant" mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker). In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion... See More
Biography & True Accounts
A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was... See More
Essays & Correspondence
The "dazzling" and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular... See More
Biography & True Accounts
From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Three essential works that redefined the art of journalism by "one of our sharpest and most trustworthy cultural observers" (The New York Times). In these masterpieces of razor-sharp reportage, the National Book... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Coming of Age
A "scathing novel" of one woman's path of self-destruction in 1960s Hollywood -- by the New York Times-bestselling author of The White Album (The Washington Post Book World). Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It... See More
History
This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West. In these eleven essays covering the national scene from Washington... See More
Biography & True Accounts
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in... See More
Biography & True Accounts
From one of America's greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion... See More
Women's Fiction
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in... See More
Essays & Correspondence
From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks-writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan... See More
Literary Fiction
An engrossing novel about political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Set in the ruined Central American nation of Boca Grande, A Book of Common Prayer is... See More
eBooks in Foreign Languages
Nel giugno del 1970 Joan Didion parte da New Orleans per un viaggio lungo il Golfo del Messico. A spingerla è l'intuizione che il cuore del paese non sia più l'Ovest - la frontiera proiettata sempre verso un domani, il... See More