Böcker av Joan Didion

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade car...

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      Precis i slutskedet av 1984 års presidentkampanj säger journalisten Elena Mac Mahon upp sig som politisk reporter. Den officiella anledningen är att hon ska ta hand om sin pappa efter moderns dör men i själva verket tvingas ho...

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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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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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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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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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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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Joan Didion's 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 ...

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From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking : ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer Here are six...

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In these coolly observant essays, Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life."

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A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Albumand The Year of Magical Thinking. Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to play for me and went t...

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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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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 Di...

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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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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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Joan Didion's 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 le...

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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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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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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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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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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Last Thing He Wanted and A Book of Common Prayer.Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetiz...

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Två amerikanska kvinnor träffas i en centralamerikansk diktatur i mitten av 1970-talet. Grace kontrollerar genom sitt äktenskap med landets ledare enorma ekonomiska rikedomar - och känner till det lilla landets alla hemligheter. Charlotte har hamn...

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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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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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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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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 explor...

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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 note...

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A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's words...

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This comprehensive edition brings together for the first time three seminal collections by legendary essayist and journalist Joan Didion: Slouching toward Bethlehem, White Album and Sentimental Journeys. Prefaced with a new introduction by Joan Di...

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'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...' In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband a...

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