Joan Didion - Böcker

Prisbelönad, kritikerrosad och älskad av läsare i USA. Nu utkommer Joan Didions "Ett år av magiskt tänkande" på svenska. Läs ett provkapitel ur boken här Det är kvällen före nyårsafton 2003. Joan Didion och hennes make sedan 40 år, John Gregory Du...

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First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of he...

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Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, a...

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Joan Didions hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lea...

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Joan Didions savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could n...

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Joan Didion föddes i Sacramento, Kalifornien 1934 och dog i New York 2021. Hon inledde sin journalistiska bana på Vogue och debuterade som författare med romanen Run River 1963. Mest känd är hon för sina reportage oc...

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Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just weeks after the two of them watched as their only daughter was put into an induced coma to save her life. With honesty and passion, ...

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A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what nothing means, and keep on playing Somewhere out beyond Hollywood...

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Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just weeks after the two of them watched as their only daughter was put into an induced coma to save her life. With honesty and passion, ...

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Under julhelgen 2003 börjar en månads helvete för författaren Joan Didion. Bara några dagar innan jul får Didion och hennes man John Gregory Dunne hjälplöst se på när deras nygifta dotter Quintana blir sjuk i vad som verkar vara influensa och däre...

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Joan Didion föddes i Sacramento, Kalifornien, och bor i New York. Hon har skrivit fem romaner, sju reportageböcker och en handfull filmmanus. Hon skriver regelbundet i The New York Review of Books och The New Yorker. Joan Didion blev - tillsammans...

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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. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what nothing means, and keep on playi...

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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 Di...

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Det är kvällen före nyårsafton 2003. Joan Didion och hennes make sedan 40 år, John Gregory Dunne, har kommit tillbaka från sjukhuset där deras enda dotter, Quintana, ligger i koma svävande mellan liv och död: en vanlig influensa har utvecklats til...

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Joan Didion's electrifying first novel begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River--a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic an...

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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 this collection include D...

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Didion's unerring sense of America and its spirit, her acute interpretation of its institutions and literature, and her incisive questioning of the stories it tells itself make this fiercely intelligent book a provocative and important tour de for...

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Politiska fiktioner är Joan Didions klassiska närstudie av amerikansk demokrati och av den grupp politiker, lobbyister och journalister som skapar berättelserna om politiken. I åtta eleganta och skarpa essäer genom tre presidentval och en sexskand...

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Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. Days later, the night before New Year's Eve, John suffered a massive and fatal coronary. This is a portrait of marriage, and life, ...

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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 work of non...

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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 Didion has always kept notebo...

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The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem "remains, forty years after its first publication, the essential portrait of America-- particularly California--in the sixti...

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Blå skymning är ett försök till uppgörelse med dotterns död. Joan Didion talar direkt, utan förbehåll, om oviljan att konfrontera det oundvikliga. Som om minnen skulle kunna ge mig någon tröst. Minnen tillhör definitionsmässigt det förgångna. Minn...

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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and ...

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The iconic writer whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers is joined in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more. Some writers define a generation. Some a genre. Joan Didion did both, a...

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An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of Americas most di...

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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 book, in which she e...

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På 1970-talet gav sig Joan Didion ut på två långa reportageresor i två kontrasterande delar av USA: Södern och Västern. Genom att förstå Södern ville hon förstå Kalifornien, där hon vuxit upp. Under dessa resor förde hon anteckningar som aldrig pu...

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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 passion.Several days before Christ...

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Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil. <BR>A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two Am...

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