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This is the author's insightful study of the realities and myths of the Cuban exiles living in Miami. The book explores the community's relationships and involvements in and out of our nation's capital.About the relationship between the Cuban exiles of Miami and the larger body politic of the United States. A place in which two profoundly different cultures co-exist in this exciting town. ... Read more

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Chapters: After Henry, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the White Album, Political Fictions, Where I Was From, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: After Henry is a 1992 book of essays by Joan Didion. The entire contents of this book are reprinted in We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006). A personal memorial for Henry Robbins, who was Didion's friend and editor from 1966 until he died in 1979. The essays collected in this book were written after Henry's death. Two of the three essays from the "Washington" section of the book were republished in 2001 as part of Didion's book Political Fictions. Analyzes Ronald Reagan's style of government, mostly through the character of his wife and other handlers. Didion says that the Reagans maintained, in their years in Sacramento and Washington, the sheltered, disconnected lifestyle of "actors on location," living in housing provided by the studio. A refrain in the piece is the public-relations language of Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, putting words to the president's grandiose but vague political vision: "Where brave heroes blank, and during those terrible last days blank..."First appeared in 1989 in The New York Review of Books. Chronicles the failed 1988 presidential campaign of democratic candidate Michael Dukakis. Didion takes as her central image a campaign stop in which Dukakis, for the benefit of news cameras, tossed a baseball with an aide on the tarmac of an airport runway, an event duly reported as news by a number of journalists "all of whom believed it to be a setup and yet most of whom believed that only an outsider, someone too 'naive' to know the rules of the game, would so describe it."First appeared in 1988 in The Ne...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6470471 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books by Joan Didion, Essay Collections by Joan Didion, Novels by Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays, After Henry, the Year of Magical Thinking, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, the White Album, Democracy, a Book of Common Prayer, the Last Thing He Wanted, Political Fictions, Miami, Where I Was From, We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, Salvador, Run, River. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt:Miami Miami is a 1987 book of social and political analysis by Joan Didion .Didion begins, "Havana vanities come to dust in Miami." The book is an extended report on the generation of Cubans who landed in exile in Miami following the overthrow of President Batista January 1, 1959 and the way in which that community has connected to America and American politics.Granta writes, "Miami may be the sunniest place in America, but this is Didion's darkest book."A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Salvador Salvador is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador .A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at The Year of Magical Thinking The Year of Magical Thinking (2005), by Joan Didion (b. 1934), is an account of the year following the death of the author's husband John Gregory Dunne (1932 2003). Published by Knopf in October 2005, the book was immediately acclaimed as a classic in the genre of mourning literature. It won the National Book Award in November 2005 and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography. Structure and themes The book recounts Didion's experiences of grief after Dunne's 2003 death of a cardiac arrest in their New York apartment. Days before his death, their daughter Quintana Roo Dunne Michael was hospitalized in New York with pneumonia whi... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 194 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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Title: An "eye on the sparrow?" Joan Didion and C. S. Lewis read the prayer book.(Critical essay)
Author: Ethan Campbell
Publication: Christianity and Literature (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2010
Publisher: Conference on Christianity and Literature
Volume: 59Issue: 3Page: 411(25)

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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Phi Beta Kappa Society on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 1409 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Golden State.(Where I Was From by Joan Didion)(Book Review)
Author: Natasha Wimmer
Publication: American Scholar (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: Phi Beta Kappa Society
Volume: 72Issue: 4Page: 146(2)

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Play It as It Lays, Democracy, a Book of Common Prayer, the Last Thing He Wanted, Run, River. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Play It as It Lays is a 1970 novel by the American writer Joan Didion. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The book was made into a 1972 movie starring Tuesday Weld as Maria and Anthony Perkins as B.Z. Didion co-wrote the screenplay with her husband, John Gregory Dunne The novel begins with an introspective mind monologue by the 31-year-old Maria Wyeth, followed by short reminiscences of her friend Helene, and ex-husband, film director Carter Lang. The further narration is conducted from a third-person perspective in eighty-four chapters of terse, controlled and highly visual prose typical for Didion. The protagonist, an unfulfilled actress, recounts her life while recovering from a mental breakdown in an exclusive Neuropsychiatric Institute. The reason for her confinement is purportedly having participated in the suicidal death of a befriended bisexual movie producer, BZ (an abbreviation for benzodiazepines, sedative drugs). The facts from Wyeths childhood include being raised in the small town of Silver Wells, Nevada, to a gambling, careless father and a neurotic mother who used to croon to herself of chimeric yearnings. After graduating from a high school in Tonopah, encouraged by her parents, she leaves for New York to become an actress. In the Big Apple, Maria works temporarily as a model and meets ex-boyfriend, Ivan Costello, as is later insinuated, a domineering psychological blackmailer who has no scruples using the money and the body of his acquiescent girlfriend. During her stay in the city, Maria receives the news about ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3287848 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V. on February 8, 2009. The length of the article is 557 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: El aòo del pensamiento mâgico, de Joan Didion: Susana Alexander, actriz y directora.
Author: Gonzalo Valdês Medellîn
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 8, 2009
Publisher: Editorial Cruzada, S.A. DE C.V.
Volume: 55Issue: 2904Page: 78(2)

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