After Henry - Softcover

Didion-joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773755284 ISBN 13: 9780773755284

Publisher: Stoddart+publishing, 1992

Synopsis

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live" was the opening line of Joan Didion's celebrated The White Album. In After Henry, her new collection of pieces, most of them reported and written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, she examines, precisely and suggestively, the stories people tell themselves - about murders and earthquakes and wildfires, about presidential politics and Patricia Hearst and Central Park "wilding, " about boom years passing and hard times coming down - in Washington and in California and in New York. Joan Didion's two previous collections, Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, are now established as classics. Salvador and Miami stand as hallmarks of political reporting. After Henry is a major literary event.

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Review:

-Joan Didion has great instincts for metaphor. She can take an ordinary object . . . and make it as ominous as Hitchcock. . . . She's writing truths about American culture in the sand at our feet. . . . With Didion leading, you could well follow one of her paragraphs into hell.-
--Boston Globe
-[Didion's] reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature. . . . She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture.-
--The New York Times Book Review

"Joan Didion has great instincts for metaphor. She can take an ordinary object . . . and make it as ominous as Hitchcock. . . . She's writing truths about American culture in the sand at our feet. . . . With Didion leading, you could well follow one of her paragraphs into hell."
--Boston Globe

"[Didion's] reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature. . . . She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture."
--The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stoddart+publishing
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0773755284
• ISBN 13: 9780773755284
• Binding: Paperback