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: This book is a compelling reference guide for book clubs on the work of Joan Didion, with summaries of her major works and discussion questions.• Discussion questions on Joan Didion's works, literary movements, and literary analysis• An exhaustive bibliography of additional writings about Didion as well as similar authors and book...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.

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.

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. (view table of contents)

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

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.

Leaving the presidential campaign she had been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father, journalist Elena McMahon finds herself trapped on an island in which intrigue, assassination, and arms dealing have superseded tourism as the major industry. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. NYT.

This tale of love and murder revolves around Inez Christian Victor, the wife of a man who wants to be President of the United States

Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, the great-grandchildren of California pioneers, become involved in murder and betrayal

Product Description: Joan Didion is a major contemporary American novelist and journalist whose works have popular appeal and are widely studied from a variety of literary perspectives as well as for philosophical, psychological, and political insights into the times and topics with which they deal...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author of Miami, Democracy, and Salvador reveals the mythical narratives of America, revealing her observations about her surroundings from Los Angeles to New York. Reprint. NYT. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: A dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui...read more

This collection of essays recounts what took place on the long morning after the 1960s, when everyone was coming down from their particular bad trip. Didion observes the dramas that explode as America goes into collective detox: the mother abandoning her five-year-old daughter on the central reservation of Interstate 5; Huey Newton and the Black Panthers preaching from their cells; students, in unconscious parody, simulating the disaffection of the 1960s. Didion hangs out with the Doors, parties with Janis Joplin, shops with the Manson clan, dines with Polanski and Sharon Tate, and goes to biker movies, "because there on the screen was some news I was not getting from the 'New York Times'". Joan Didion has also written "Sentimental Journeys" and "Slouching Towards Bethlehem".

Product Description: The art of Joan Didion compels us to consider one essential question: What is the moral significance of our nation's mythic and historic quest for paradise in American culture today? The author's relentless exploration of this frontier leads through the wasteland of despair and chaos that she sees in modern America...read more

A brief biographical profile of the author accompanies a detailed analysis of her novels and essays