![]() ![]() ![]() Born in Sacramento, California, she lives in New York City. Her books include Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Play It as It Lays, The White Album, The Year of Magical Thinking, and, most recently, South and West: From a Notebook. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: ' has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing always in control. Joan Didion is the author of five novels, ten works of nonfiction, and a play. ![]() More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. ![]() First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the 'best prose written in this country.'
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