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By Didion, Joan2012, c2011., Vintage International Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Vintage Interna Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shares the author's frank observations about her daughter as well as her own thoughts and fears about having children and growing old, in a personal account that discusses her daughter's wedding and her feelings of failure as a parent.
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By Didion, Joan1970., Farrar, Straus & Giroux Call No: REALISTIC F DID Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "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 evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose."--Publisher.
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c2008., Adolescent, Greenhaven Press Call No: 913.54 ANGELOU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social issues in literatureSummary Note: Presents essays that examine racism and other related issues in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," discussing such topics as race and gender, humor and folklore, and death and rebirth.
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By Didion, Joan[1968]., Farrar, Straus & Giroux Call No: HI-INT B DID Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A half-century after its initial publication in 1968, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains the essential portrait of America--and California in particular--during the sixties. The remarkable debut essay collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, it explores such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes; growing up in California; the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room; and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Dan Wakefield wrote in The New York Times Book Review, 'In her portraits of people, [Didion] is not out to expose but to understand...[She] makes them neither villainous nor glamorous, but alive and botched and often mournfully beautiful'"--Back cover.
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By Didion, Joan2009., Farrar, Straus and Giroux Call No: HI-INT B DID Edition: Pbk. reissue ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: FSG classics.Summary Note: Contains essays in which journalist Joan Didion writes about people, places, and events of the 1960s and 70s, including the Manson family, the John Paul Getty museum, and others.
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By Didion, Joan2007, c2005., Vintage International Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st Vintage Interna Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author recalls the weeks and months following the death of her husband of forty years and the severe illness of their only daughter, and discusses the changes that occurred in her life as a result.