Joan Didion

When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave....

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things. "Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register "Didion’s timeless essays...

"First appearing in print in 1979, this remarkable and intimate audiobook chronicles the implosion of the 1960s and reports on the people, mores, and trends that defined that turbulent time."—AudioFile First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and...

Joan Didion s'apprête à dîner avec son mari, l'écrivain John Gregory Dunne, quand ce dernier s'écroule, victime d'une crise cardiaque foudroyante. Pendant une année entière, elle essaie de se résigner à la mort de son compagnon et de s'occuper de leur fille, gravement malade.

Pendant plusieurs mois, Didion consigne leurs échanges avec une minutie remarquable. Les premières séances abordent des thèmes tels que l'alcoolisme, l'adoption, la dépression, l'anxiété, la culpabilité, et la relation complexe, parfois douloureuse, qu'elle entretient avec sa fille, Quintana.

Die große amerikanische Schriftstellerin Joan Didion schreibt über die Trauer nach dem Tod ihres Ehemannes und über ihren Versuch, das Unfassbare...

Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, contadas con una inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva....

A sus treinta años, Maria Wyeth se encuentra emocionalmente a la deriva y ajena a todo lo que la rodea....

Elena McMahon abandona su trabajo como reportera en The Washington Post y su lujosa vida en California para adentrarse en otra: la de su padre, una existencia repleta de tratos oscuros....

Un relato autobiográfico lleno de dolor y de belleza sobre la muerte de su hija, por la autora de El año del pensamiento mágico....

I julen 2003 blev Joan Didion og hendes mand, John Gregory Dunnes, datter alvorligt syg. Nogle dage senere, netop hjemvendt fra et besøg...

"Blå timer" er en fritstående fortsættelse af "Et år med magisk tænkning" og om muligt en endnu stærkere bog. Den handler især om Joan...

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....

Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers....

The legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Towards Bethlehem here trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine....

The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....

Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil....

From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: 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 notebooks: of...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century 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...

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts....