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: