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'In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand ... A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country' The New York Times Book Review 'All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact ! the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism' Robert Towers, New York Times Book Review 'Didion manges to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike movies, for instance) as interesting and suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration (Georgia O'Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota) ... A timely and elegant collection' New Yorker 'Didion is an original journalistic talent who can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, graceful strokes' San Francisco Chronicle
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'In her portraits of people, Didion is not out to expose but to understand . . . A rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country' The New York Times Book Review
'All of the essays manifest not only [Didion's] intelligence but an instinct for details that continue to emit pulsations in the reader's memory and a style that is spare, subtly musical in its phrasing and exact … the result is a voice like no other in contemporary journalism' Robert Towers, New York Times Book Review
'Didion manges to make the sorry stuff of troubled times (bike movies, for instance) as interesting and suggestive as the monuments that win her dazzled admiration (Georgia O'Keeffe, the Hoover Dam, the mountains around Bogota) . . . A timely and elegant collection' New Yorker
'Didion is an original journalistic talent who can strike at the heart, or the absurdity, of a matter in our contemporary wasteland with quick, graceful strokes' San Francisco Chronicle
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Joan Didion is the unsung hero(ine) of the New Journalism and this collection of classic works serves to underline just how important Didion was, and still is, in American non fiction writing. Live and Learn is a consolidation of three collections of writing from various periods of her writing career. From the Haight Ashbury infused Slouching towards Bethlehem to the Reagan/Bush era musings of After Henry, her brisk, sparse prose is a joy to behold. There is more to New Journalism than Tom Wolfe's high jinks with the merry pranksters.....
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