The collection is the first of three planned volumes dedicated to her work. Ulin, the volume assembles five titles - “Run River,” “Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” “Play It As It Lays,” “A Book of Common Prayer” and “The White Album” - that established Didion as one of the requisite voices not just of the West but of her moment. Within her clean crisp sentences, this mirage of a destination shimmers up: the soil, the light, a tangle of deeply imperfect humans, all trying their luck, and then gone in a moment.Įdited by former Times book editor David L. In the Library of America’s “ Didion: The 1960s & ’70s,” readers can feel the prickly heat, smell the approaching catastrophe. Pared down: For many she articulates California’s particular seasons, a West that is as recognizable as it is changeable.Ī new collection captures and revisits Didion’s seminal work - both fiction and nonfiction. She has written hauntingly about disasters - both acts of God and man-made mayhem, from runaway wildfires to Charles Manson - that have rewritten the narrative of this place.
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