Автор: Didion Joan Название: Play It as It Lays ISBN: 0374529949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374529949 Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Рейтинг: Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Ожидается поступление.
Описание: 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. Joan Didion is the author of five novels as well as several works of nonfiction, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "The White Album," "Miami," "Salvador," "After Henry," and "Political Fictions." She lives in New York City. A dissection of American life in the late 1960s, "Play It As It Lays "captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui. Maria Wyeth is an emotional drifter who has become almost anesthetized against pain and pleasure. She finds herself, in her early thirties, radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future. Actress, daughter, wife, mother, woman: she has played each role to the sound of one hand clapping. "Play It As It Lays" is set in a place beyond good and evil, literally in Los Angeles and Las Vegas and the barren wastes of the Mojave, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul. Two decades after its original publication, it remains a profoundly disturbing novel. "There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book."--John Leonard, "The New York Times"" " "Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, "Play It As It Lays" is a book of outstanding literary quality."--"Library Journal " " A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust."--J. R. Frakes, "Book World"
Автор: Joan Didion Название: Year of Magical Thinking, The ISBN: 0007216858 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007216857 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1451.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Slouching towards bethlehem ISBN: 0008284644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008284640 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: South and west ISBN: 0008257205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008257200 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: The Year of Magical Thinking ISBN: 140004314X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400043149 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 2575.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: National Bestseller From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later--the night before New Year's Eve--the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion' s attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."
Автор: Joan Didion Название: A Book of Common Prayer ISBN: 0007415001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007415007 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 America`s most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Run River ISBN: 0679752501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679752509 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California.
Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: Democracy ISBN: 0679754857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780679754855 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean--agorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life.
Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase.
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.
As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class.
Автор: Didion, Joan Название: The Year of Magical Thinking ISBN: 1400078431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400078431 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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National Bestseller
From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: 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. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later--the night before New Year's Eve--the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion' s attempt to make sense of the "weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself."
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