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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Hardcover • 2006 • English

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

By Joan Didion

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About the book

Seven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: including the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miami; After Henry; Political Fictions; and Where I Was From. As featured in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. Joan Didion’s incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven ...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9780307264879

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published year

2006

Language

English

Original title

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Format

Hardcover

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