Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (LOA #341)

Name: Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (LOA #341)
Brand: Library of America
SKU: 9781598536836-PRUSDTR-US
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English • Age Adult - Adult

851 pages • 5.2 x 8.15 x 1.4 in

Approx. weight: 1.58 lb

Publication date: 20 Apr,2021

Barcode: 9781598536836 • Library of America

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Fiction: general and literary
News media and journalism
Media studies: journalism
Narrative theme: Politics

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By: Joan Didion

Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-career

This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album. Gather here are Salvador, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war of the early 1980s; Miami, a portrait not just of a city but of immigration, exile, the cocaine trade, and political violence; and After Henry, in which she reports on Patty Hearst, Nancy Reagan, the case of the Central Park Five, and the Los Angeles she once called home. The novels Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, the latter recently adapted for film by Netflix, are fast-paced, deftly observed narratives of power, conspiracy, and corruption in American political life. Taken together, these five books mark the remarkable mid-career evolution of one of the most dynamic writers of our time.