The World According to Joan Didion

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780063289079 Author(s): Evelyn McDonnell Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2023 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pages: 224

Description: An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writerâs writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on lifeâs telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists.An antidote to a global view that narrows our vision to the smallest screens, The World According To Joan Didion is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didionâs prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to âthrow themselves into the convulsions of the world,â as she once said.Evelyn McDonnell, the acclaimed journalist, essayist, critic, feminist, native Californian, and university professor who regularly teaches Didionâs work, is attuned to interpret Didionâs vision for readers today. Inspired by Didionâs own wordsâfrom her works both published and unpublishedâand informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, The World According to Joan Didion is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didionâs eyes and explores her work in chapters keyed to the singular physical motifs of her writing: Snake. Typewriter. Hotel. Notebook. Girl. Etc.One of the first books to be published after the revered writerâs death in 2021, The World According to Joan Did