‘The year of magical thinking’
Quite possibly no one has plunged the scalpel so deeply into their own pain as the journalist and writer who faces the terrible fact of facing the death of her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, her collaborator in life and at work, that collapsed with a heart attack before his eyes.
‘Blue nights’
The day of the heart attack that ended with Dunne, the only daughter of both, Quintana Roo had been in a coma for several days in the hospital. He managed to recover only to attend his father’s funeral but passed away shortly before ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ appeared, turned into a spectacular best-seller. This book, which is also a reflection on old age, remembers her.
‘As the game comes on’
Possibly the best novel of the author, a portrait in the best sharp and cutting didionesque style of what it meant to be a woman in the United States of the 60s. She knew how to portray society’s neglect towards women and a generational anguish against the extreme capitalism.
‘Those who dream the American dream’
An excellent journalistic anthology that shows that Didion could be as good as Tom Wolfe or Gay Talese, his male fellow ranks in the New Journalism. And of course far superior when it comes to making a psychological portrait of what he observes without any sentimentality.
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‘What I mean’
Didion’s last book published in Random House Literature, the label that has collected all his work. Twelve unpublished articles by the author in Spanish that correspond to the first part of her journalistic career, with excellent portraits of Orwell, Hemingway and Nancy Reagan.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com