{"product_id":"joan-didion-i-write-to-find-out-what-i-am-thinking","title":"Joan Didion: I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics, 2026, Hardback, 472 pages, 13.7 x 21.3 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9781584351115 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand her bestselling and most famous work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn her essay “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhy I Write\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e” (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: \"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” Across her long and prolific career, readers have been blessed time and again by her brilliance as a prose stylist and a social commentator. Form her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand for her daughter in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Blue Nights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e South and West,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e Let Me Tell You What I Mean,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-listen-to-a-clip\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-also-in-series\"\u003e\n\u003ca id=\"alsoinseries\" name=\"#alsoinseries\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot series-also-in 9781584351115 isbn-related show\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"in-series\" class=\"product-series-also-in\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60259447341440,"sku":null,"price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/61mnLb25ODL._SL1024.jpg?v=1793280377","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/joan-didion-i-write-to-find-out-what-i-am-thinking","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}