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The Last Love Song
Tracy Daugherty
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Description for The Last Love Song
Paperback. In The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author of Hiding Man (a New Yorker and New York Times Notable book) and Just One Catch, delves deep into the life of distinguished American author and journalist Joan Didion in this, the first printed biography published about her life. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 210 x 35. Weight in Grams: 610.
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. The two were wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well-known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most- notable work includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Run River, and The Year of Magical Thinking, a National Book Award winner and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, it dealt with the grief surrounding Didion after the loss of her husband and daughter. Daughtery takes readers on a ... Read more
Joan Didion lived a life in the public and private eye with her late husband, writer John Gregory Dunne. The two were wildly successful writing partners when they moved to Los Angeles and co-wrote screenplays and adaptations together. Didion is well-known for her literary journalistic style in both fiction and non-fiction. Some of her most- notable work includes Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Run River, and The Year of Magical Thinking, a National Book Award winner and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, it dealt with the grief surrounding Didion after the loss of her husband and daughter. Daughtery takes readers on a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
St Martin´s Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
610 g
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781250105943
SKU
V9781250105943
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About Tracy Daugherty
TRACY DAUGHERTY is the New York Times bestselling author of published novels, short story collections, and a book of personal essays. His biographies of Donald Barthelme, Hiding Man, and Joseph Heller, Just One Catch, received rave reviews. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Currently, he is Distinguished Professor of English and ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Love Song
Compelling.
Washington Post Thoughtful and ambitious.
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times It is rare to find a biographer so temperamentally, intellectually, and even stylistically matched with his subject as Tracy Daugherty.
Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books Intelligent ... Read more
Washington Post Thoughtful and ambitious.
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times It is rare to find a biographer so temperamentally, intellectually, and even stylistically matched with his subject as Tracy Daugherty.
Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books Intelligent ... Read more