I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking

<b>This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion''s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: <i>Blue Nights, South and West</i>, <i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean, </i>and her bestselling and most famous work, <i>The Year of Magical Thinking.</i></b><br><br>In her essay “Why I Write” (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.<br><br>From 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.  <br><br>Everyman''s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author''s life and times.