{"product_id":"joan-didion-life-andwiththrough-words-9783631894408","title":"Joan Didion: Life And\/With\/Through Words","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoan Didion (1934-2021) was one of America's most iconic writers and intellectuals. Her reportage and essays, as well as her novels and memoirs provide sharp comments on a variety of facets of American culture and politics between the 1960s and the 2010s. Employing the complex relationship between life and words as guiding framework, the volume offers fresh approaches to \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlay It As It Lays\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as takes on her final publications \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003eThe collection also features photographs of Didion and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, with an accompanying essay by artist and photographer Nancy Ellison, plus a contribution by literary biographer Tracy Daugherty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCinzia Scarpino \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Milan. Her research interests and publications range from American literature of the 1930s and 1940s and of the second half of the 20th century to environmental studies, screen studies, and Law \u0026amp; Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEva-Sabine Zehelein \u003c\/strong\u003eis Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has published broadly in North American Studies, e.g. on John Updike, contemporary science plays, Alice Munro, Joan Didion, 55+ communities and family trees. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50489721159954,"sku":"9783631894408","price":70.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0e66fd89-c5ad-47ac-b818-e1436a909d5c.jpg?v=1730506535","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/joan-didion-life-andwiththrough-words-9783631894408","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}