The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion

✍ Scribed by Daugherty, Tracy

• Book ID: 108957321
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250010025

✦ Synopsis

In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch,delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life.

Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, whom she met while the two were working in New York City when Didion was at Vogue and Dunne was writing for Time. They became wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well-known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most-notable work includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Run River , and The Year of Magical Thinking, a __ National Book Award winner and shortlisted for...