After Henry
Author(s): Joan Didion
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Didion's "reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature.... She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture" (The New York Times Book Review).
Here, the National Book Award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts.
At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away.
A bracing amalgam of skepticism and sympathy, After Henry is further proof of Joan Didion's infallible radar for the true spirit of our age.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Vintage
- : 0.266712
- : 27 April 1993
- : .7 Inches X 5.2 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Joan Didion
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 320
- : FA