Joan Didion is one of America's most respected writers, her work constituting some of the greatest portraits of modern-day American culture. Over the four decades of her career, she has produced widely-acclaimed journalistic essays, personal essays, novels, non-fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award in 2005.
'All the essays manifest not only her intelligence but an instinct
for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's
memory, and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing,
and exact. Add to this her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and
the result is a voice like no other in contemporary
journalism.'
NEW YORK TIMES 'Demonstrates an uncanny ability to capture the
insidious and pervasive infections of mind and spirit that have led
to both the corruption of government and business, and the
withering of the individual.'
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 'Everything Didion writes has a land's end
edginess to it – a hyperattentive eye on the dramas found at the
outskirts of the human condition. She writes as someone who has
come through great shudders of the earth with a fundamental
understanding that everything is subject to instantaneous and
complete revision.'
VILLAGE VOICE 'She is the best chronicler California has'
VOGUE 'Simply an original and unexpected writer who is never
banal'
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
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