Autor Joan Didion
Kultová, kánonická, kľúčová – prvá kniha esejí Joan Didion Vlečie sa do Betlehema zachytáva USA šesťdesiatych rokov v okamihu, keď sa starý poriadok rozpadá a nový sa ešte len bolestivo rodí. Prvýkrát vyšla v zlomovom roku 1968 a kritika ju označila…
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES ‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN ‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year…
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. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never…
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters: I know what ‘nothing’ means, and keep on playing…
This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking In her essay “Why I Write”…
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES'A profound, rich document'NEW STATESMAN'An act of intimate storytelling'VOGUEA recently discovered journal from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year…
An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had ?a rough few years.? She described the sessions in a…
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate.The man with the candy will lead the…
Román Kniha denních modliteb zasadila americká prozaička a reportérka Joan Didionová do fiktivní, politicky nestabilní středoamerické země jménem Boca Grande. Zde se protínají životní dráhy vypravěčky a vystudované antropoložky Grace Strasser-Mendanové…
Kniha Joan Didion osciluje na pomedzí eseje, autobiografie a románu. Autorka v nej mapuje jeden rok od smrti svojho muža Johna Gregoryho Dunnea. Vťahuje nás do svojho „magického“ myslenia, ktoré sa pre jeho stratu stalo myslením vychýleným, odkloneným…
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. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks:…
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.
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure.
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion…
V románu Demokracie se v rychlých střizích střídají výjevy z New Yorku a Havaje, Jakarty a Kuala Lumpuru, vojenských základen a luxusních hotelů. Spojené státy prožívají definitivní debakl války ve Vietnamu a protagonistka knihy Inez Victorová kolísá…
Jedenatřicetiletá Maria Wyethová se celé dny bezcílně projíždí po kalifornských dálnicích a pokouší se uniknout letitým traumatům, krachujícímu manželství i upadající herecké kariéře. Jazykově suverénní vyprávění přechází v rychlých střizích mezi minulostí…
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.