"Livet förändras snabbt. Livet förändras på ett ögonblick. Man sätter sig ner för att äta middag och livet som man känner det tar slut." Det är kvällen före nyårsafton 2003. Joan Didion och hennes make sedan 40 år, John Gregory Dunne, har kommit til…
*A New York Times Best Seller* From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, an…
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. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade caree…
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.
Joan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.
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.
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Albumand The Year of Magical Thinking.
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem remains, decades after its first publication, the essential portrait of America--particularly California--in the sixties.…
Beautifully repackaged as part of the Picador Modern Classics Series, this special edition is small enough to fit in your pocket and bold enough to stand out on your bookshelf. Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion's first work of non…
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place bey…
Joan Didion, en av den amerikanska litterära scenens stora namn, är tillbaka på svenska. Atlas inleder med att återutge hennes klassiska roman Lagt kort i pocket. Maria Wyeth, trettionånting med en kort men lysande karriär bakom sig i Hollywood, räk…
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through t…
First published in 1979, The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era--including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall--through the lens of her…
Winner of the National Book Award 2005 for nonfiction From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage - and a…
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack.This powerful and moving work is Didion's…
Blå skymning är ett försök till uppgörelse med dotterns död. Joan Didion talar direkt, utan förbehåll, om oviljan att konfrontera det oundvikliga. Som om minnen skulle kunna ge mig någon tröst. Minnen tillhör definitionsmässigt det förgångna. Minnen…
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…
A definitive compilation of essays and nonfiction writings spanning more than forty years includes the author's reflections on politics, lifestyle, place, and cultural figures, including her studies of Haight-Ashbury, the Manson family, the Black Pa…
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 Joan Didi…
På 1970-talet gav sig Joan Didion ut på två långa reportageresor i två kontrasterande delar av USA: Södern och Västern. Genom att förstå Södern ville hon förstå Kalifornien, där hon vuxit upp. Under dessa resor förde hon anteckningar som aldrig publ…
Politiska fiktioner är Joan Didions klassiska närstudie av amerikansk demokrati och av den grupp politiker, lobbyister och journalister som skapar berättelserna om politiken.I åtta eleganta och skarpa essäer genom tre presidentval och en sexskandal…
'This happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you...'In this adaptation of her award-winning, bestselling memoir, Joan Didion transforms the story of the sudden and unexpected loss of her husband and…
A New York Times Notable Book and National BestsellerFrom one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter.Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dun…
I slutet av 1700-talet lämnade Joan Didions mors mormors mormors mormor den amerikanska östkusten för att skapa sig ett bättre liv i det förlovade landet - Kalifornien. Joan Didion växer upp med familjens historier om äventyren, modet och rättrådigh…
This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores…
An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most dis…
Precis i slutskedet av 1984 års presidentkampanj säger journalisten Elena Mac Mahon upp sig som politisk reporter. Den officiella anledningen är att hon ska ta hand om sin pappa efter moderns dör men i själva verket tvingas hon ta…
An incisive compilation of political essays, originally written for The New York Review of Books from 1988 to 2000, explores the nature of American politics and political figures and the role of the media in transforming the American political lands…
Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles.Here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Miss…
This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion's incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and offic…
National Bestseller Joan Didion has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the…
El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not on…
In 1982, Didion traveled to El Salvador at the height of the ghastly civil war. From battlefields to body dumps, she trained a merciless eye not only on the terror but also on the depredations and evasions of our own country's foreign policy.
Två amerikanska kvinnor träffas i en centralamerikansk diktatur i mitten av 1970-talet. Grace kontrollerar genom sitt äktenskap med landets ledare enorma ekonomiska rikedomar – och känner till det lilla landets alla hemligheter. Charlotte har…
Under julhelgen 2003 börjar en månads helvete för författaren Joan Didion. Bara några dagar innan jul får Didion och hennes man John Gregory Dunne hjälplöst se på när deras nygifta dotter Quintana blir sjuk i vad som verkar vara influensa och däreft…
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 her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine…
In this moving and insightful book, Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that e…
Library of America launches a definitive collected edition of one of the most original and electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her five iconic books of the 1960s & 70s Joan Didion's influence on postwar American letters is undeniabl…
Genudgivelse i paperback. I julen 2003 blev Joan Didion og hendes mand, John Gregory Dunnes datter alvorligt syg. Nogle dage senere, netop hjemvendt fra et besøg hos hende på hospitalet, sætter de sig til at spise aftensmad, da John falder død om, r…
Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence. It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised a…
It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. fo…
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. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives…
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (…
Blå kvelder er portrett av en mor og en datter. Og en bok om å møte sin alderdom, uten egentlig å kunne tilgi seg selv. «Når vi snakker om dødelighet, snakker vi om barna våre.» Bare noen uker før utgivelsen av hennes forrige bok døde Joan Didions d…
Blå skymning är ett försök till uppgörelse med dotterns död. Joan Didion talar direkt, utan förbehåll, om oviljan att konfrontera det oundvikliga. "Som om minnen skulle kunna ge mig någon tröst. Minnen tillhör definitionsmässigt det förgångna. Minne…
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…
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 wo…
In sieben brillanten Reportagen entwirft Joan Didion ein präzises Bild der Entwicklung des amerikanischen Staates während der letzten drei Jahrzehnte. Faktenreich berichtet sie aus den Zentren der Macht und erforscht die Verquickung von Re…
Die große amerikanische Schriftstellerin Joan Didion schreibt über die Trauer nach dem Tod ihres Ehemannes und über ihren Versuch, das Unfassbare begreiflich zu machen. Ein sehr offenes, sehr persönliches Buch, das zugleich von…