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The Joan Didion Collection (three-book boxed set)

Edited by David L. Ulin

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Video “A Place None of Us Know”: Writing, Loss, and Joan Didion’s Late Memoirs
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December 18, 2020

The ultimate Didion: all 17 of her major works of fiction, journalism, and memoir together for the first time.

In 1968, a collection of reportage appeared that was unlike anything seen before, remarkable in its literary aspiration and a milestone in what would become known as the New Journalism. A series of wickedly incisive portraits of California and its people—from fading stars to homicidal housewives to drug-addled hippies—Slouching Towards Bethlehem was a sensation, signaling the arrival of a major writer. It attracted not only readers but devotees, and Joan Didion became more than just a celebrated author, she became an icon for the age. Now, for the first time, all her best-known and most enduring works are gathered together in a career-spanning three-volume Library of America boxed set.

Library of America series editions are printed on acid-free paper and feature Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Project support for The 1960s & 70s was provided by Harrison Ford, in memory of Melissa Mathison and Earl McGrath, Alan Alda, Big Beach, Boaty Boatwright, Susan L. Brody, Lucy Fisher and Douglas Z. Wick, Louise Grunwald, Penelope C. Hall, David Hare, ICM Partners, Kathleen Kennedy, Lyn and Norman Lear, Carey Lowell, Liam Neeson, Wyndham Robertson, Richard Roth, Meryl Streep, and Jann Wenner.

Project support for The 1980s & 90s was provided by David Bruce Smith and other friends of Library of America.

Project support for Memoirs & Later Writings was provided by the Fran & Ray Stark Foundation.

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ISBN: 978-1-59853-769-7 2686 pages

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