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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (Everyman's Library)by Joan Didion
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury. "The White Album" covers the revolutionary politics and the contemporary wasteland of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood. "Salvador" is a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war. "Miami" exposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. In "After Henry" Didion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays in "Political Fictions" — on censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and compassionate conservatism, among others-show us how we got to the political scene of today. And in "Where I Was From" Didion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream. Review:"A useful chronology matches events in the author's life with historical events and a literary context." Library Journal Synopsis:For the first time, all of Didion's nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume. Synopsis:This collection of beautiful, enduring hardcover editions features modern American masterpieces, including works by Nobel Prize and National Book Award winners. With elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers, these classics are an essential for any home library. Titles included: Beloved by Toni Morrison The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike Revolutionary Road; The Easter Parade; Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion Synopsis:From Chinua Achebe to Toni Morrison and Raymond Chandler to Joan Didion, the Everymans Library Contemporary Classics set is a collection of the finest literature of our time by award-winning and bestselling writers with new introductions and author chronologies. This set includes one each of the following titles: Animal Farm by George Orwell Beloved by Toni Morrison The Best of Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window by Raymond Chandler Black Mischief, Scoop, The Loved One, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh The Bookshop, The Gate of Angels, The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Carried Away by Alice Munro The Castle by Franz Kafka Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Collected Stories by Franz Kafka Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler Collected Stories by Roald Dahl Collected Stories by W. Somerset Maugham The Collected Works by Kahlil Gibran The Complete Henry Bech by John Updike The Complete Short Stories by Evelyn Waugh The Dain Curse, The Glass Key, and Selected Stories by Dashiell Hammett Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Dubliners by James Joyce Essays by George Orwell Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. 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Narayan Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf My Ántonia by Willa Cather The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Offshore, Human Voices, The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov A Passage to India by E. M. Forster The Periodic Table by Primo Levi The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays by Albert Camus Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, Mildred Pierce, and Selected Stories by James M. Cain The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Girls of Slender Means, The Drivers Seat, The Only Problem by Muriel Spark Rabbit Angstrom by John Updike The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov The Stranger by Albert Camus Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher by R. K. Narayan The Sword of Honour Trilogy by Evelyn Waugh The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripleys Game by Patricia Highsmith Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufus Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War by Naguib Mahfouz To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Trial by Franz Kafka Ulysses by James Joyce Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live by Joan Didion The Woman Warrior, China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston Zenos Conscience by Italo Svevo Everymans Library continues to maintain its original commitment to publishing the most significant world literature in editions that reflect a tradition of fine bookmaking. Everymans Library pursues the highest standards, utilizing modern prepress, printing, and binding technologies to produce classically designed books printed on acid-free natural-cream-colored text paper and including Smyth-sewn, signatures, full-cloth cases with two-color case stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, and European-style half-round spines. About the AuthorJoan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction. Table of ContentsIntroduction by John Leonard Select Bibliography Chronology Slouching Towards Bethlehem The White Album Salvador Miami After Henry Political Fictions Where I Was From Notes to Miami Acknowledgments What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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