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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) - Hardcover
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live For the first time, all of Didion's nonfiction writing on place, politics, lifestyle, and cultural figures from the 1960s to 2003 have been gathered together in one volume. Full description
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"[Didion's is] one of the most recognizable--and brilliant--literary styles to emerge in America during the past four decades . . . [She is] a great American writer."
--New York Times Book Review
--Newsweek "Her intelligence is as honed as ever . . . Her vision is ice-water clear . . . Didion has captured the mood of America."
--New York Times "Many of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didion's] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers."
--Chicago Tribune "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion's] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx."
--from the Introduction by John Leonard
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.
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- PublisherEveryman's Library
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0307264874
- ISBN 13 9780307264879
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages1160
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