Or save it to favorites and we'll tell you if this item goes on sale!

Where I Was From, by Joan Didion, 2003, 1st Edition

Name: Where I Was From, by Joan Didion, 2003, 1st Edition
Price: 242 USD
Availability: InStock

$242

Bonebrake M.

Locust Valley, NY

Condition Notes: Slight sunning to the jacket. Otherwise, as new Slight sunning to the jacket. Otherwise, as new less

Description: In her moving and insightful book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A … more In her moving and insightful 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. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and her book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal. less

Need more product details?

Return Policy - All sales are final 48 hours after delivery, unless otherwise specified in the description of the product.

Locust Valley, NY

Featured Promoted Listings

Thanks for joining Chairish!