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Prestige, classical in form, grave and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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- Author
- Joan Didion
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 1141
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman's Library
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307264879
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Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. - Wikipedia
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