The ultimate Didion: all 17 of her major works of fiction, journalism, and memoir together for the first time in a 3-volume boxed set. A must for fans of the most eclectic and enduring writers of the last half century.
In 1968, a collection of reportage appeared that was unlike anything seen before, remarkable in its literary aspiration and a milestone in what would become known as the New Journalism. A series of wickedly incisive portraits of California and its people-from fading stars to homicidal housewives to drug-addled hippies-Slouching Towards Bethlehem was a sensation, signaling the arrival of a major writer. It attracted not only readers but devotees, and Joan Didion became more than just a celebrated author, she became an icon for the age. Now, for the first time, all her best-known and most enduring works are gathered together in a career-spanning 3-volume Library of America boxed set.
THE JOAN DIDION COLLECTION includes:
I. The 1960s & 70s
- Run River
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Play It As It Lays
- A Book of Common Prayer
- The White Album
II. The 1980s & 90s
- Salvador
- Democracy
- Miami
- After Henry
- The Last Thing He Wanted
III. Memoirs & Later Writings
- Political Fictions
- Fixed Ideas
- Where I Was From
- The Year of Magical Thinking (memoir and play)
- Blue Nights
- South and West