Joan Didion: 49 books

Book cover of Run River
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

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...
Book cover of Political Fictions
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2001

National Bestseller In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who invent, year in and year out, the narrative of public life." Through the deconstruction of the sound bites and photo ops of three presidential campaigns,...
Book cover of A Book of Common Prayer
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011

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.A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande....
Book cover of Das Letzte, was er wollte
by Joan Didion
Language: German
Release Date: October 25, 2019

"Zugleich luzide und surreal… hinreißend." The New Yorker Eigentlich ist Elena McMahon von Kindesbeinen an gewohnt, lieber nicht so genau wissen zu wollen, was ihr Vater beruflich macht. Doch als dieser nicht mehr in der Lage ist, sich um seine Angelegenheiten zu kümmern, lässt sie...
Book cover of Le bleu de la nuit

Le bleu de la nuit

traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Pierre Demarty

by Joan Didion
Language: French
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Après avoir érigé un inoubliable tombeau littéraire à l’homme de sa vie (L'Année de la pensée magique), Joan Didion adresse, dans Le Bleu de la nuit, un vibrant hommage funèbre à leur fille, décédée quelques semaines à peine avant la parution de la Pensée magique aux Etats-Unis. Mais...
Book cover of Une saison de nuits

Une saison de nuits

Roman - Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Philippe Garnier

by Joan Didion
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2014

Près d’un demi-siècle avant L’Année de la pensée magique, une jeune femme faisait ses débuts sur la scène littéraire américaine. Joan Didion n’a pas trente ans lorsque paraît en 1963 Run River, premier roman et premier jalon d’une œuvre immense à venir, dont il annonce déjà, à...
Book cover of Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

The “dazzling” and essential portrayal of 1960s America from the author of South and West and The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times). Capturing the tumultuous landscape of the United States, and in particular California, during a pivotal era of social change, the first work of...
Book cover of Wir erzählen uns Geschichten, um zu leben

Wir erzählen uns Geschichten, um zu leben

Mit einem Nachwort von Antje Ravic Strubel

by Joan Didion
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2014

Joan Didion erzählt von den Leitfiguren des American Dream wie Howard Hughes, Joan Baez oder John Wayne, vom Glanz Hollywoods und der Einsamkeit von Alcatraz, von der Aufbruchsstimmung der sechziger Jahre und der Ernüchterung, die ihr folgte. Dabei gelingt es ihr, die amerikanische Wirklichkeit in unvergessliche Bilder zu fassen.
Book cover of Democracy
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

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...
Book cover of The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play
by Joan Didion
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009

“this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you . . .” In this dramatic adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir (which Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times called “an indelible portrait of loss and grief . . . a haunting...
Book cover of Diglielo da parte mia
by Joan Didion
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 30, 2013

Boca Grande è la capitale di un piccolo stato del Sud America, uno di quei paesi da un colpo di stato all'anno dove non cambia mai niente. Un giorno a Boca Grande arriva Charlotte Douglas, una donna nordamericana smarrita e magnetica. Nessuno sa chi sia, cosa cerchi o cosa ci faccia a Boca Grande....
Book cover of Menschen am Fluss
by Joan Didion
Language: German
Release Date: July 11, 2014

Alles beginnt mit einem Schuss. Als Everett McClelland den heimlichen Liebhaber seiner Frau Lily erschießt, ist das nicht nur der hilflose Versuch, seine Ehe vor dem endgültigen Zerfall zu retten. Es ist auch der Höhepunkt einer seit Jahrzehnten schwelenden Rivalität zwischen mächtigen Farmerdynastien...
Book cover of Süden und Westen
by Joan Didion
Language: German
Release Date: February 23, 2018

"Sie werden aus diesen vierzig Jahre alten Notizen mehr über Amerikas Zukunft erfahren als aus der Zeitung von morgen." Esquire Ein feinsinniges Porträt uramerikanischer Landschaften, in dem sich bereits die Bruchlinien andeuten, an denen entlang sich das heutige Amerika spaltet: Im Sommer 1970...
Book cover of Prendila così
by Joan Didion
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 20, 2014

In un’esclusiva clinica neuropsichiatrica di Los Angeles Maria Wyeth, attrice fallita, ripensa alla sua vita, frammentata in episodi che appaiono ormai distanti e freddi come gli astri nella volta celeste. Dal deserto del Nevada alle colline di Hollywood, da modella a protagonista in film minori:...
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