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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Maya Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 11-05-24
- Language: English
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Year of Magical Thinking, Didion explores with electric honesty and passion a private yet universal experience....
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Great book to Read, but I didn’t like it
- By Michael on 05-08-15
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-30-05
- Language: English
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The White Album
- Essays (FSG Classics)
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Susan Varon
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.
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You Feel Like You Are There
- By Kelly Jo on 07-15-24
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The White Album
- Essays (FSG Classics)
- Narrated by: Susan Varon
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 06-04-24
- Language: English
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Thalia Book Club: Joan Didion's Blue Nights
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Griffin Dunne, Joan Didion
- Length: 1 hr
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Didion discusses her deeply moving new memoir about her daughter, and her own fears and thoughts about growing old....
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Joan on Joan
- By Kitchenlickin on 11-07-20
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Thalia Book Club: Joan Didion's Blue Nights
- Narrated by: Griffin Dunne, Joan Didion
- Length: 1 hr
- Release date: 04-11-12
- Language: English
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave....
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Difficult story, but worth it
- By Maya on 08-07-20
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 08-04-20
- Language: English
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A Book of Common Prayer
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil....
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Strong tale badly told
- By A reader in Berkeley on 06-04-17
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A Book of Common Prayer
- Narrated by: Marisa Vitali
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-22-13
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- An Essay Collection
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From one of our most iconic and influential writers comes a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....
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Didion deserves a better narrator
- By Pamela on 02-03-21
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
- An Essay Collection
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 01-26-21
- Language: English
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After Henry
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts....
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It'll blow a hole in your retina
- By Darwin8u on 10-03-15
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After Henry
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Hess
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 03-09-13
- Language: English
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Miami
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence....
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Havana vanities come to dust in Miami.
- By Darwin8u on 09-22-15
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Miami
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 03-11-13
- Language: English
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Play It as It Lays
- A Novel (FSG Classics)
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the listener.
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Exquisite 🤌🏻
- By Connor on 07-24-24
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Play It as It Lays
- A Novel (FSG Classics)
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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South and West
- From a Notebook
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Nathaniel Rich
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles—and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama....
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"Notes" Are Not a Book
- By Carole T. on 03-11-17
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South and West
- From a Notebook
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Nathaniel Rich
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 03-07-17
- Language: English
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Where I Was From
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours....
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- By Darwin8u on 11-04-15
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Where I Was From
- Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-09-13
- Language: English
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Salvador
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
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The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war....
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Didion writes like an orthopedic surgeon cuts
- By Darwin8u on 01-29-14
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Salvador
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 03-01-13
- Language: English
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Democracy
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Denise Poirier
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track....
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Exquisite
- By Adam Burke on 04-17-23
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Democracy
- Narrated by: Denise Poirier
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-22-13
- Language: English
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Run, River
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Holly Cate
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
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Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers....
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Thought-provoking, riveting, memorable
- By Avalon on 08-23-13
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Run, River
- Narrated by: Holly Cate
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-12-13
- Language: English
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Blue Nights
- A Memoir
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter....
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Twilights turn Long and Blue
- By Darwin8u on 01-02-17
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Blue Nights
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 11-01-11
- Language: English
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Selected Shorts
- Travel Tales
- By: N.M. Kelby, Max Steele, Nadine Gordimer, and others
- Narrated by: Mia Dillon, Paul Hecht, Christina Pickles, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Selected Shorts: Travel Tales presents a collection of classic travel experiences....
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not so much about travel
- By jess on 07-05-11
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Selected Shorts
- Travel Tales
- Narrated by: Mia Dillon, Paul Hecht, Christina Pickles, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Bradley Whitford, Joanne Woodward, Nadine Gordimer
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-20-07
- Language: English
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The Last Thing He Wanted
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
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The legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Towards Bethlehem here trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine....
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Ugh—find a different book
- By K. Hendry on 02-27-21
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The Last Thing He Wanted
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 05-07-13
- Language: English
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El año del pensamiento mágico [The Year of Magical Thinking]
- By: Joan Didion, Javier Calvo Perales - traductor
- Narrated by: Nuria Pérez
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Unas memorias conmovedoras sobre la enfermedad y la muerte a través de la experiencia personal de la periodista y escritora Joan Didion....
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El año del pensamiento mágico [The Year of Magical Thinking]
- Narrated by: Nuria Pérez
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 11-16-23
- Language: Spanish
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El año del pensamiento mágico [The Year of Magical Thinking]
- By: Joan Didion
- Narrated by: Yotzmit Ramírez
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne....
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Precisamente escrito
- By jimena Diez on 09-10-20
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El año del pensamiento mágico [The Year of Magical Thinking]
- Narrated by: Yotzmit Ramírez
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 08-06-20
- Language: Spanish
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