{"product_id":"i-write-to-find-out-what-i-am-thinking-collected-nonfiction-9780593992210","title":"I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: \u003ci\u003eBlue Nights, South and West\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean, \u003c\/i\u003eand her bestselling and most famous work, \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her essay \"Why I Write\" (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e and for her daughter in \u003ci\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/i\u003e), to her exploration of two iconic regions of America in \u003ci\u003eSouth and West\u003c\/i\u003e, through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from across her career in \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean\u003c\/i\u003e, the books collected here show Didion at her best: bearing witness to our history, illuminating our culture, and shedding light on the human condition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEveryman'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Everyman's Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593992210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Joan Didion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51299216031925,"sku":"9780593992210","price":29.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_009f9590-2333-4942-b9d1-17f784685825.jpg?v=1751985783","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/i-write-to-find-out-what-i-am-thinking-collected-nonfiction-9780593992210","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}