Джоан Дидион - автор 17 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Год магического мышления, Синие ночи, The Year of Magical Thinking. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
«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 пытаетс...
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 магическо...
Didion's husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, died of a heart attack, just after they had returned from the hospital where their only child, Quintana, was lying in a coma. This book is a memoir of Dunne's death, Quintana's illness, and Didion's efforts to make sense of a time when nothing made sense. "She's a pretty cool customer," one hospital worker says of her, and, ...
This collection of essays takes the reader on a psychological tour of the intense, wayward, violent, not a little crazy America of the 1960s. Surfers, students, deadheads and druggies; Joan Baez, Dean Martin, Howard Hughes and John Wayne - all emerge from Didion's gaze just that little bit weirder, that little bit more American. Joan Didion has also written "Sentimental Journeys" and "The Whi...
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 great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that onl...
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 the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of it...
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, 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 beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul-it remains more tha...
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 thin...
WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES IN ORDER TO LIVE Looking for plausible stories as the Sixties are about to implode, Joan Didion sets out, notebook in hand, on a now-legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche: she kills time waiting for Jim Morrison to show up, parties with Janis Joplin, visits the Black Panthers in prison, watches a campus combust, dines with Tate and Polanski, buys...
В сборник включены произведения разных жанров, принадлежащих перу известных современных зарубежных писателей. Повесть гаитянского писателя Роже Дорсенвиля о патриотах своей многострадальной родины и повесть Эрве Базена о трагических событиях в Чили соседствуют здесь с воспоминаниями Грэма Грина о встречах с Панамским лидером Омаром Торрихосом и репортажем американской журналистки и писательницы Дж...
In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Contra in 1984), and fashions a moral thriller as hypnotic and provacative as any by Joseph Conrad or Graham Greene. In that latter year Elena McMahon walks off the ...
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 would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, Amer...
Инес Виктор знает, что самое опасное для политики - это память. Но люди вокруг Инес строят свои карьеры на забвении. Ее муж-сенатор хочет забыть о своем фиаско на последних президентских выборах. Помощник ее мужа хотел бы, чтобы пресса забыла о том, что отец Инес - убийца. А Америка в 1975 году, когда разворачивается эта полная смеха сквозь слезы история, изо всех сил старается не вспоминать о...
Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehem captures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by Californ...
From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks--writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles--and here is one such draft that ...
«Ползут, чтоб вновь родиться в Вифлееме» – это сборник эссе, написанных Джоан Дидион в 1960-х годах для различных периодических изданий и сыгравших важнейшую роль в становлении «новой журналистики». В своих очерках Джоан Дидион, лауреатка Национальной книжной премии, запечатлела тектонический сдвиг, произошедший во всех сферах жизни США. Название сборнику и одному из эссе в нем дала строка из стих...