- American essays, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, American Short stories
""We tell ourselves stories in order to live" was the opening line of Joan Didion's celebrated The White Album.
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Prestige, classical in form, grave and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Joan Didion
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Vintage Books, Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., Stoddart
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781504045698
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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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