I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking

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This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected non-fiction contains her final four books: ‘Blue Nights’, ‘South and West’, ‘Let Me Tell You What I Mean’, and her most famous work, ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’. In her essay ‘Why I Write’ (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic non-fiction 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.

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SKU: 9781841594323 Category: Tags: , , Publisher/imprint : Everyman
Page count : 472
Published on 14th August, 2025

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This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking In 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. Form her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in The Year of Magical Thinking and for her daughter in Blue Nights), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in South and West, through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in Let Me Tell You What I Mean, the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition.

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Weight 0.75 kg
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.3 × 4 cm
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