{"product_id":"i-write-to-find-out-what-i-am-thinking-collected-nonfiction","title":"I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Nights, South and West\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand her bestselling and most famous work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her essay “Why I Write” (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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\u003e and for her daughter in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSouth 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\"\u003eLet 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEveryman’s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author’s life and times.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expandev\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318676099357,"sku":"9780593992210","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780593992210.jpg?v=1757015489","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/i-write-to-find-out-what-i-am-thinking-collected-nonfiction","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}