«Год магического мышления» – правдивый и горький рассказ о переживании утраты. Джоан Дидион описывает, как она прожила год после скоропостижной смерти мужа, с которым она была вместе сорок лет. Ее мучает один вопрос: могла ли она как-то повлиять на случившееся, могла ли распознать знаки, которые расставляла судьба? Или это были не знаки? Она подмечает в себе признаки магического мышления и пытается разобраться со своим сознанием, своим восприятием, своей памятью.

В сборнике «Демократия» представлены романы американских писателей Генри Адамса, Гора Видала и Джоан Дидион, объединенных общностью темы и авторского отношения к изображаемым явлениям. «Демократия» Г. Адамса (1880) стоит у истоков жанра «политического романа» в литературе США, тему падения политических нравов продолжают романы современных писателей «Вашингтон, округ Колумбия» Г. Видала (1967) и «Демократия» (1984) Дж. Дидион, где дается обстоятельный анализ американских «коридоров власти». Рекомендуется широкому кругу читателей.

Джоан Дидион (р. 1934) — писательница, журналистка, сценарист, автор пяти романов и восьми книг документальной прозы, среди которых знаменитые сборники очерков «Крадясь к Вифлеему» (1968) и «Белый альбом» (1979). Среди фильмов по сценариям Дидион — «Паника в Нидл-парке» (1971), призер Каннского кинофестиваля. Последние книги писательницы стали осмыслением утраты самых близких людей. «Год магического мышления» (2005), получивший Национальную книжную премию США, рассказывает о смерти мужа Дидион — писателя Джона Грегори Данна, с которым ее связывали и тесные творческие отношения. Книга была переработана в моноспектакль, блестяще сыгранный на Бродвее Ванессой Редгрейв. «Синие ночи»...

From one of America's iconic writers, this is 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. This is a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later — the night before New Year's Eve — the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close,...

Joan Didion's unblinking eye and razor-sharp perceptions of the American scene are exhibited in the essays Girl of the Golden West, In the Realm of the Fisher King, and Sentimental Journeys' from After Henry; excerpts from Salvador and Miami; and more.

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 that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not...

Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has become a modern classic. More than any other book of its time, this collection captures the mood of 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. These essays, keynoted by an extraordinary report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." An incisive look at contemporary American life, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for several decades as a stylistic masterpiece.

First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the Manson family, a visit to a Black Panther Party press conference, the story of John Paul Getty's museum, a meditation on the romance of water in an arid landscape, and reflections on the swirl and confusion that marked this era. With commanding sureness of mood and language, Didion exposes the realities and dreams of an age of self-discovery whose spiritual center was California.

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 Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old. Blue Nights opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. Today would be her wedding anniversary. This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood — in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid...

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror — its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.