A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. von Didion, Joan

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror-its mechanisms, rationales, and...

»Sie werden aus diesen vierzig Jahre alten Notizen mehr über Amerikas Zukunft erfahren als aus der Zeitung von morgen.« Esquire Ein feinsinniges Porträt uramerikanischer Landschaften, in dem sich bereits die Bruchlinien andeuten, an...

Memoir from the influential American writer, reassessing land, family and perseverance. von Didion, Joan

"Where I Was From: A Memoir" von Joan Didion ist eine tiefgründige und reflektierende Abhandlung über die kulturelle und historische Identität Kaliforniens, verknüpft mit Didions eigener Familiengeschichte. In diesem Werk untersucht...

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her...

Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first...

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the...

Paperback edition of Didion's latest memoir, which deals with the death of her adopted daughter, Quintana Roo. From the author of "The Year Of Magical Thinking", which sold over a million copies. 'Her prose is a thing of beauty' Daisy...

Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife,...

'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' von Didion, Joan

Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of...