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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.
Set in a place beyond good and evil—literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul—it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Wish I Hadn't Cliff Noted This in High School
- De Joel en 03-27-17
De: Ray Bradbury
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The White Album
- Essays (FSG Classics)
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Susan Varon
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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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—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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You Feel Like You Are There
- De Kelly Jo en 07-15-24
De: Joan Didion
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Maya Hawke
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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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 in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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Thought Provoking Essays
- De NRo en 03-07-25
De: Joan Didion
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Blue Nights
- A Memoir
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.
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Twilights turn Long and Blue
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-17
De: Joan Didion
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Black Swans
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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A collection of original short stories offers an intimate and dark portrait of life in the United States as they journey through California seeking answers to our changing world, dealing with such topics as jealousy, AIDS, sex, and Jim Morrison. A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s - decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.
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Torrid affairs @ Chateau Marmont
- De Ariana Sweany en 10-29-24
De: Eve Babitz
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Democracy
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Denise Poirier
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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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. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.
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Exquisite
- De Adam Burke en 04-17-23
De: Joan Didion
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A Book of Common Prayer
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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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. A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little.
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Strong tale badly told
- De A reader in Berkeley en 06-04-17
De: Joan Didion
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The White Album
- Essays (FSG Classics)
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Susan Varon
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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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—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
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You Feel Like You Are There
- De Kelly Jo en 07-15-24
De: Joan Didion
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
- Picador Modern Classics
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Maya Hawke
- Duración: 6 h y 23 m
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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 in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture.
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Thought Provoking Essays
- De NRo en 03-07-25
De: Joan Didion
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Blue Nights
- A Memoir
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr
- Duración: 4 h y 21 m
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.
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Twilights turn Long and Blue
- De Darwin8u en 01-02-17
De: Joan Didion
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Black Swans
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 6 h y 38 m
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A collection of original short stories offers an intimate and dark portrait of life in the United States as they journey through California seeking answers to our changing world, dealing with such topics as jealousy, AIDS, sex, and Jim Morrison. A new reissue of Babitz’s collection of nine stories that look back on the 1980s and early 1990s - decades of dreams, drink, and glimpses of a changing world. Black Swans further celebrates the phenomenon of Eve Babitz, cementing her reputation as the voice of a generation.
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Torrid affairs @ Chateau Marmont
- De Ariana Sweany en 10-29-24
De: Eve Babitz
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Democracy
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Denise Poirier
- Duración: 5 h y 16 m
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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. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.
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Exquisite
- De Adam Burke en 04-17-23
De: Joan Didion
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A Book of Common Prayer
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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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. A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little.
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Strong tale badly told
- De A reader in Berkeley en 06-04-17
De: Joan Didion
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The Year of Magical Thinking
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Barbara Caruso
- Duración: 5 h y 5 m
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"Life changes fast....You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." These were among the first words Joan Didion wrote in January 2004. Her daughter was lying unconscious in an intensive care unit, a victim of pneumonia and septic shock. Her husband, John Gregory Dunne, was dead. The night before New Year's Eve, while they were sitting down to dinner, he suffered a massive and fatal coronary. The two had lived and worked side by side for nearly 40 years.
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Great book to Read, but I didn’t like it
- De Michael en 05-08-15
De: Joan Didion
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Joan Didion at the 92nd Street Y
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Joseph Lelyveld
- Duración: 46 m
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Joyce Carol Oates called Joan Didion "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time." Ms. Didion is the author of the novels Play It as It Lays and The Last Thing He Wanted, the essay collections Slouching Toward Bethlehem and The White Album, and the memoirs Where I Was From and The Year of Magical Thinking.
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Slow Days, Fast Company
- The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of LA in the 1960s in a wildly original, totally unique voice. These stories are time capsule gems, as poignant and startling today as they were when published in the early 1970s. Eve Babitz is not well known today, but she should be. Her firsthand experiences in the LA cultural scene, translated into haunting fiction, are an unforgettable glimpse at a lost world and a magical time.
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obsessed with Eve
- De Debbie L. Smith en 06-25-20
De: Eve Babitz
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The Last Love Song
- A Biography of Joan Didion
- De: Tracy Daugherty
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 26 h y 43 m
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Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City, when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and cowrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and nonfiction.
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Riveted for 1591 miles
- De Kaysi12 en 04-11-16
De: Tracy Daugherty
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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Brutes
- A Novel
- De: Dizz Tate
- Narrado por: Eleanor McCormick
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives.
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No idea what was happening at any time
- De Amazon Customer en 04-02-24
De: Dizz Tate
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Paradise Rot
- A Novel
- De: Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss - translator
- Narrado por: Brie Jackman
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo's sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.
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Wrong Voice
- De Laura en 08-18-24
De: Jenny Hval, y otros
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Notes to John
- De: Joan Didion
- Duración: 5 h
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In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne. For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods.
De: Joan Didion
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Eve's Hollywood
- De: Eve Babitz
- Narrado por: Mia Barron
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Journalist, party girl, bookworm, artist, muse: By the time she'd hit 30, Eve Babitz had played all of these roles. She was immortalized as the nude beauty facing down Duchamp and as one of Ed Ruscha's Five 1965 Girlfriends, and Babitz's first book showed her to be a razor-sharp writer with tales of her own. Eve's Hollywood is an album of vivid snapshots of Southern California's haute bohemians, of outrageously beautiful high school ingenues and enviably tattooed Chicanas, of rock stars sleeping it off at the Chateau Marmont.
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A fun read!
- De Ryan Stanley en 09-11-18
De: Eve Babitz
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South and West
- From a Notebook
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Kimberly Farr, Nathaniel Rich
- Duración: 2 h y 51 m
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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. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention.
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"Notes" Are Not a Book
- De Carole T. en 03-11-17
De: Joan Didion
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The World According to Joan Didion
- De: Evelyn McDonnell
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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Joan Didion was a writer’s writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life’s telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists. The World According to Joan Didion is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didion’s prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to “throw themselves into the convulsions of the world,” as she said.
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Woke, revisionist retelling of Didion's life and work.
- De c en 02-10-24
De: Evelyn McDonnell
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Woman, Eating
- A Literary Vampire Novel
- De: Claire Kohda
- Narrado por: Jane Lui
- Duración: 8 h y 15 m
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Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can't eat any of these things. Her body doesn't work like those of other people.
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Really wanted to like it.
- De Emily Nigh en 07-21-22
De: Claire Kohda
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Play It as It Lays
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- Connor
- 07-24-24
Exquisite 🤌🏻
Captivating story and the narrator did an excellent job with portraying the essence. The book played out like an episode of “Welcome to NightVale”. I was very impressed.☺️
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- Otter Pop
- 11-08-24
For every woman who’s been told to be the good wife
This story felt grueling at times and even when I was 3/4 of the way through the book, I wasn’t sure I enjoyed it. Yet the point of it all does matter. The ending will wash over you like a sleeper wave. Didion has done something here that not many could, by painting a picture of perpetuated dysfunction and the outcomes.
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- Sara Scott
- 07-17-24
Pointless
Pointless nihilist nothingness I can hardly finish it. Absolutely waste of my time. I liked your other books a lot better. This one was pointless.
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