Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to San Simeon, and a reunion of WWII veterans in Las Vegas, and about topics ranging from Nancy Reagan to Robert Mapplethorpe to Martha Stewart. Here are subjects Didion has long written about - the press, politics, California robber baronsac, women, the act of writing, and her own self-doubt. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive and, in new light, stunningly prescient.

Product details

• Authors: Joan Didion, Didion Joan
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.01.2022
• EAN: 9780008451783
• ISBN: 978-0-00-845178-3
• No. of pages: 149
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; USA, Media Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Women Authors, SELF-HELP / Compulsive Behavior / Gambling, Autobiography: literary, Reportage & collected journalism, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Literary essays, c 1970 to c 1979, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Autobiography: writers, c 1970 to c 1980, Reportage, journalism or collected columns