{"title":"Joan Didion","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"joan-didion-womb-house-books-hat","title":"Joan Didion Womb House Books Hat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis adjustable cotton hat in a vintage navy color features \"Joan Didion\" embroidered on the front and \"Womb House Books\" on the back. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51363566092597,"sku":null,"price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/didion.jpg?v=1783276835"},{"product_id":"slouching-towards-bethlehem-by-joan-didion","title":"Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"ntraii-dcashz-ou2p1a-bu8on5\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore than perhaps any other book, this collection of essays by Didion―one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era―captures her focus on time and place at a unique moment in history. Here, Didion explores people and subjects such as John Wayne, Howard Hughes, growing up in California, the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, and the birth of American counterculture. Didion’s work in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has become a totem for readers “who have lost their sense of place or sense of time or sense of self” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). “In her portraits of people,” writes the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, “Didion is not out to expose but to understand.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHailed as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and as a classic of New Journalism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Didion at her finest.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"globalStoreInfoBullets\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"ukpr42-vpkr8v-il12i4-l51qg7\" data-cel-widget=\"globalStoreInfoBullets_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"vu3ys7-ymclzm-xsg1e1-bjdhmr\" data-cel-widget=\"buyingOptionNostosBadge_feature_div\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"tellAmazon\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"tellAmazon\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"0374531382\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"9mpl38-5zekze-v7dd6k-l1u7dv\" data-cel-widget=\"tellAmazon_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"celwidget c-f\" data-csa-op-log-render=\"\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"DsUnknown\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"DsUnknown-10\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-painter=\"tell-amazon-desktop-cards\" data-csa-c-id=\"u9wxke-i1capt-l0gn26-cn0fjw\" data-cel-widget=\"tell-amazon-desktop_DetailPage_9\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"CardInstanceZPSY34YWidGUYMDRyiIZhg\" data-card-metrics-id=\"tell-amazon-desktop_DetailPage_9\" data-acp-tracking=\"{}\" data-mix-claimed=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53097193406773,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/slouchingTowardsBethlehem.jpg?v=1783275650"},{"product_id":"the-white-album-by-joan-didion","title":"The White Album by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExamining key events, figures, and trends of the era―including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall―through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53097197044021,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/TheWhiteAlbum.jpg?v=1783275766"},{"product_id":"play-it-as-it-lays-by-joan-didion","title":"Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet 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 than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53097201402165,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/PlayItAsItLays.jpg?v=1783275921"},{"product_id":"the-year-of-magical-thinking-by-joan-didion","title":"The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoan Didion delivers a searing portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved and lost a husband or wife or child. In a work of electric honesty and passion, Didion explores how we all, somehow, will ourselves to survive. “An utterly shattering portrait of loss and grief.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e–The New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeveral days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana Roo, fall ill with septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later, the Dunnes were sitting down to dinner after visiting their daughter in the hospital when John suffered a fatal heart attack. 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