We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
By Joan Didion
Introduction by John Leonard
By Joan Didion
Introduction by John Leonard
Part of Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism | Reference
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Hardcover $40.00
Oct 17, 2006 | ISBN 9780307264879
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“Many of us have tried, and failed, to master [Didion’s] gift for the single ordinary deflating word, the word that spins an otherwise flat sentence through five degrees of irony. But her sentences could only be hers.”
—Chicago Tribune
“I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion’s] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx.”
—from the Introduction by John Leonard
Table Of Contents
Introduction by John Leonard
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The White Album
Salvador
Miami
After Henry
Political Fictions
Where I Was From
Notes to Miami
Acknowledgments
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