The White Album by Joan Didion

The White Album by Joan DidionJoan Didion's hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the children into the sea. In this now legendary journey into the hinterland of the American psyche, Didion searches for stories as the Sixties implode. She waits for Jim Morrison to show up, visits the

elemental landscape of normalised violence

Allende hopes

It gets bigger and bigger every day and it makes Ruby sad

and changed her life for ever

and she is called on to help

Imagine the offspring of THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE with THE VIRGIN SUICIDES' GUARDIANTranslated by Philip Gabriel

And this mystery man

whores and ladies

of no matter what sex or age

Jacqueline Wilson

Rivers and lakes are the arteries and beating heart of Ireland

The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture's commodification of women is the subject of this book