Product Description: «Durante las noches azules uno piensa que el día no se va a acabar nunca. A medida que las noches azules se acercan a su fin (y lo hacen, lo hacen siempre) uno experimenta un escalofrío literal, una visión de enfermedad, en el mismo momento de darse cuenta: la luz azul se está yendo, los días ya se están acortando, el vera...read more

From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.   Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.   Blue Nights—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like The Year of Magical Thinking before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.

Product Description: From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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...read more

Product Description: From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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...read more

A definitive compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including her studies of Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Panthers, California earthquakes, Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr, and much more.

El Salvador, 1982, is the height of a ghastly civil war. The author travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadoran meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye on the terror there as well as on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy.

Product Description: Joan Didion explores an intensely personal, and yet universal, experience through the portrait of a married couple—and of life’s both good and bad moments—that will surely impress anyone who has ever experienced love for a husband, wife, or child...read more

Product Description: Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion's Neoclassical architecture, and by Thomas Cole's cycle of the same name, Ed Ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled Course of Empire at the 2005 Venice Biennale...read more

The essayist explores American ideals of independence and self-reliance by probing her own life and those of her relatives, discussing how the character of California's settlers created the state as it exists today.

A remarkable anthology of writings--including essays, fiction excerpts, and more--by the critically acclaimed author includes 'Girl of the Golden West,' 'In the Realm of the Fisher King,' 'Sentimental Journeys' from After Henry, selections from Miami and Salvador, and 'Clinton Agonistes,' among others. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Discusses the rhetoric and media strategies of George W. Bush following the September 11th terrorist attacks.

An incisive compilation of political essays, originally written for The New York Review of Books from 1988 to 2000, explores the nature of American politics and political figures and the role of the media in transforming the American political landscape. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Collects essays on such diverse topics as John Wayne, the Haight-Asbury culture, and the Newport mansions.

Product Description: The handsome Reader's Edition features a large, easy-to-read typeface that is perfect for use in public worship settings or for people with vision difficulties. Makes a great pew prayer book. Burgundy genuine leather, gold cross, gold page edges, 2 ribbon markers, gift box.

Looks at the relationship between Miami natives and the Cuban refugees trying to establish new lives

Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her personal history. She finds herself radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future.