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Jul 15, 2024 · The last thing her father wanted was for her to complete a deal where he would receive $1 million in order to basically organize Iran-contra. The narrator is interesting: they are unnamed, sarcastic, and basically Didion’s own voice.
2 days ago · Reading The Last Thing He Wanted, I was left breathless at Didion’s ability to write a situation into reality that started off relatively innocuously but escalated out of control at such speed, and so absolutely, there would be no going back to how it was before. This escalation is universal, even if the experience is not: the air that we ...
Jul 8, 2024 · This Literature & Fiction item is sold by wombhousebooks. Ships from Berkeley, CA. Listed on Jul 8, 2024
Jul 6, 2024 · A thrilling and exhilarating exploration of U.S. politics in Central America from Joan Didion, the hugely acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking. It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father’s life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp little more than air.
Jun 30, 2024 · In the years since her death, Didion’s star has only risen, with a museum exhibit , revivals of her play, a buzzed-about estate sale and the New York Public Library’s forthcoming unveiling of her joint archive with her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, who died in 2003.
Jul 18, 2024 · Along with Joan Didion, whose final novel The Last Thing He Wanted happened to be a thriller, McCarthy and Morrison are, in Sinykin’s account, writers of ‘literary genre fiction’, an umbrella term for books by writers with fancy prose styles that partake of forms usually associated with commercial fiction. As usual he sees this as a ...
Jul 8, 2024 · I tried business, biology, Spanish language, and dropping out of college entirely before I allowed myself to admit what I am. I hated that I found myself important enough to write something meaningful. But like the crucifix caught up to Joan of Arc, the pen caught up to me.
