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Herr, Michael --- Mailer, Norman --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Didion, Joan --- Didion, Joan
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"The only book to offer an extended treatment of Joan Didion's nonfiction writing, and the first to offer extended analysis of her prose style"--
Didion, Joan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literary style. --- Electronic books.
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Self in literature --- Wolfe, Tom --- Didion, Joan --- Mailer, Norman
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American literature --- Didion, J. --- Women and literature --- -History --- -Didion, Joan --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -Literature --- History --- Didion, Joan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- Women and literature - - History - - 20th century - United States --- -Didion, Joan - Criticism and interpretation
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From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage& and a life, in good times and bad& that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later& the night before New Year's Eve& the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion's attempt to make sense of the & weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness . . . about marriage and children and memory . . . about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself'.'
Grief. --- Journalists --- Loss (Psychology). --- Mothers and daughters --- Novelists, American --- Novelists, American --- Psychoanalyse --- Widows --- Family relationships. --- cultuur en religie. --- Didion, Joan. --- Dunne, John Gregory, --- Didion, Joan --- Didion, Joan --- Death and burial. --- Marriage. --- Family.
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'. . . In Cold Blood, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Armies of the Night . . .' Starting in 1965 and spanning a ten-year period, a group of writers including Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Joan Didion, John Sack, and Michael Herr emerged and joined a few of their pioneering elders, including Truman Capote and Norman Mailer, to remake American letters. The perfect chroniclers of an age of frenzied cultural change, they were blessed with the insight that traditional tools of reporting would prove inadequate to tell the story of a nation manically hopscotching from hope to doom and back again& from war to rock, assassination to drugs, hippies to Yippies, Kennedy to the dark lord Nixon. Traditional just-the-facts reporting simply couldn't provide a neat and symmetrical order to this chaos. Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent& and significant& years in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfe's white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompson's drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herr's redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the era& Harold Hayes at 'Esquire', Clay Felker at 'New York', and Jann Wenner at 'Rolling Stone'. And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, a tragedy of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing. This is the story of perhaps the last great good time in American journalism, a time when writers didn't just cover stories but immersed themse
American prose literature --- Journalism --- Reportage literature, American --- History and criticism. --- History --- Mailer, Norman --- Didion, Joan --- Wolfe, Tom --- Criticism and interpretation.
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