The White Album - Hardcover

Joan Didion

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671226851 ISBN 13: 9780671226855

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1979

Synopsis

White Album, The by Didion, Joan

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Didion is the author of five novels and six works of nonfiction: Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Miami, Salvador, After Henry, and Political Fictions. She lives in New York City.

Review:

"All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact. Add to these her highly vulnerable sense of herself, and the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism."--Robert Towers, The New York Times Book Review

"Didion manges to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike movies, for instance, and Bishop James Pike) as interesting and suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration (Georgia O'Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota) . . . A timely and elegant collection."--The New Yorker

"Didion is an original journalistic talent who can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, graceful strokes."--The San Francisco Chronicle

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0671226851
• ISBN 13: 9780671226855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 222