A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history ¿ and America¿s. Where I Was From, in Didion''s words, "represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely."The book is a haunting narrative of how her own family moved west with the frontier from the birth of her great-great-great-great-great-grandmother in Virginia in 1766 to the death of her mother on the edge of the Pacific in 2001; of how the wagon-train stories of hardship and abandonment and endurance created a culture in which survival would seem the sole virtue. Didion examines how the folly and recklessness in the very grain of the California settlement led to the California we know today ¿ a state mortgaged first
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Iconic writer Joan Didion, whose prose was as influential and as it is unmistakably hers, is joined here in conversation with Sheila Heti, Hilton Als, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru and many more.
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<p><strong>An exploration of the visual corollary to Didion¿s life and work and the feeling that each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics¿including artists from Helen Lundeberg to Diane Arbus, Betye Saar to Maren Hassinger,...
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<b><b><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR •</b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BEST SELLER </b>• <b>From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author...
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