I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking

This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: <i>Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, </i>and her bestselling and most famous work, <i>The Year of Magical Thinking </i>In her essay “<i>Why I Write</i>” (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writin "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 <i>The Year of Magical Thinking </i>and for her daughter in<i> Blue Nights</i>), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in<i> South and West,</i> through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in<i> Let Me Tell You What I Mean,</i> the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition.