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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the listener.
Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul—it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
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It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island 90 miles to the south.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“There hasn't been another American writer of Joan Didion's quality since Nathanel West . . . A terrifying book.”—John Leonard, The New York Times
“Simple, restrained, intelligent, well-structured, witty, irresistibly relentless, forthright in diction, and untainted by the sensational, Play It As It Lays is a book of outstanding literary quality.”—Library Journal
“[A] scathing novel, distilling venom in tiny drops, revealing devastation in a sneer and fear in a handful of atomic dust.”—J. R. Frakes, Book World
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The vivid imagery.
- De Anne en 03-20-25
De: Joan Didion
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Joan Didion at the 92nd Street Y
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Joseph Lelyveld
- Duración: 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Joyce Carol Oates called Joan Didion "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time." Ms. Didion is the author of the novels Play It as It Lays and The Last Thing He Wanted, the essay collections Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album, and the memoirs Where I Was From and The Year of Magical Thinking.
De: Joan Didion
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A Book of Common Prayer
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 38
Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil. A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Strong tale badly told
- De A reader in Berkeley en 06-04-17
De: Joan Didion
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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Salvador
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 2 h y 55 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror - its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear," Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Didion writes like an orthopedic surgeon cuts
- De Darwin8u en 01-29-14
De: Joan Didion
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,471
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,175
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,186
"Life changes fast....You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book to Read, but I didn’t like it
- De Michael en 05-08-15
De: Joan Didion
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Run, River
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Holly Cate
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 44
Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought-provoking, riveting, memorable
- De Avalon en 08-23-13
De: Joan Didion
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Democracy
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Denise Poirier
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 39
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exquisite
- De Adam Burke en 04-17-23
De: Joan Didion
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- An Essay Collection
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Duración: 4 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. With a forward by Hilton Als, these 12 pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Didion deserves a better narrator
- De Pamela en 02-03-21
De: Joan Didion
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Black Swans
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A collection of original short stories offers an intimate and dark portrait of life in the United States as they journey through California seeking answers to our changing world, dealing with such topics as jealousy, AIDS, sex, and Jim Morrison. A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s - decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Torrid affairs @ Chateau Marmont
- De Ariana Sweany en 10-29-24
De: Eve Babitz
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A Rare Recording of Joan Didion Reading Her Novel, A Book of Common Prayer: Part 1
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Joan Didion
- Duración: 41 m
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Joan Didion (December 5, 1934-December 23, 2021), born in Sacramento, California, was an American author, screenwriter, and journalist. Her writing during the 1960s through the late 1970s engaged audiences in the realities of the counterculture of the 1960s, the Hollywood lifestyle, and the history and culture of California.
De: Joan Didion
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Didion and Babitz
- De: Lili Anolik
- Narrado por: Lili Anolik, Emma Roberts
- Duración: 12 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 40
Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan? —Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972. Joan Didion, revealed at last… Eve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. Found in the wrack, ruin, and filth of her apartment, a stack of boxes packed by her mother decades before. The boxes were pristine, the seals of duct tape unbroken. Inside, a lost world. This world turned for a certain number of years in the late sixties and early seventies, and centered on a two-story rental in a down-at-heel section of Hollywood.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I’m still Team Joan
- De Dorothy L. Lipman en 11-16-24
De: Lili Anolik
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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After Henry
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Hess
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 27
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 24
In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It'll blow a hole in your retina
- De Darwin8u en 10-03-15
De: Joan Didion
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Brutes
- A Novel
- De: Dizz Tate
- Narrado por: Eleanor McCormick
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 22
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In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No idea what was happening at any time
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-24
De: Dizz Tate
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The Day of the Locust
- De: Nathanael West
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 336
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 296
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 293
Admired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the best 100 English-language novels by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence American writers, artists, and culture. Bob Dylan wrote the classic song "Day of the Locusts" in homage, and Matt Groening's Homer Simpson is named after one of its characters. No novel more perfectly captures the nuttier side of Hollywood. Here the lens is turned on its fringes-actors out of work, film extras with big dreams, and parents lining their children up for small roles.
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3 out of 5 stars
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great writing, bleak story
- De Amazon Customer en 06-08-21
De: Nathanael West
Didion is a genius
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Exquisite 🤌🏻
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For every woman who’s been told to be the good wife
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Pointless
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