Joan Didion: Memoirs & Later Writings (LOA #386)

The ultimate Didion edition concludes with the brilliant and haunting works from her incomparable late phase.

Library of America now completes its definitive, three-volume edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with the final seven books: 

• Political Fictions (2001) offers a behind-the-scenes look at the American political landscape of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, its reflections on sound bites, photo ops, and an increasingly dysfunctional system still bracingly relevant.
• Fixed Ideas (2003), restored to print in this collection, traces the efforts of the Bush administration to “stake new ground in old domestic wars” in the wake of 9/11.
• Where I Was From (2003) explores the sunny myths and darker realities of Didion's native California, her personal recollections…