# Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s (Loa #341): Salvador / Democracy / Miami / After Henry / The Last Thing He Wanted - Hardcover

by **Joan Didion** (Author), **David L. Ulin** (Editor)

****Library of America continues its definitive edition of one of the most electric writers of our time with a volume gathering her iconic reporting and novels from mid-career****

This second volume in Library of America's definitive Didion edition includes two novels and three remarkable essay collections with which she extended the compass of the extraordinary journalistic eye first developed in the celebrated books _Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ and _The White Album_. Gather here are _Salvador_, a searing look at terror and Cold War politics in the Central American civil war of the early 1980s; _Miami,_ a portrait not just of a city but of immigration, exile, the cocaine trade, and political violence; and _After Henry_, in which she reports on Patty Hearst, Nancy Reagan, the case of the Central Park Five, and the Los Angeles she once called home. The novels _Democracy_ and _The Last Thing He Wanted_, the latter recently adapted for film by Netflix, are fast-paced, deftly observed narratives of power, conspiracy, and corruption in American political life. Taken together, these five books mark the remarkable mid-career evolution of one of the most dynamic writers of our time.

### Author Biography

**Joan Didion** (1934--2021) was one of the most distinct American literary voices of the last half century. She was the author of five novels and ten books of nonfiction, including _Slouching Towards Bethlehem_, _The White Album_, _Play It As It Lays_, and mostly recently the _New York Times_ best sellers _The Year of Magical Thinking_, _Blue Nights_, _South and West_, and _Let Me tell You What I Mean_. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the National Book Foundations' Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

**David L. Ulin** is the author or editor of ten books, including _Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles_; the Library of America's _Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology_, which won a California Book Award; and _The Lost Art of Reading: Books and Resistance in a Troubled Time_. The former book editor and book critic of the _Los Angeles Times_, he teaches at the University of Southern California.

**Number of Pages:** 838

**Dimensions:** 1.7 x 8 x 5.3 IN

**Publication Date:** April 20, 2021

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