This hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books:
Blue Nights South and West Let Me Tell You What I Mean and her bestselling and most famous
work The Year of Magical Thinking In 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. Form her unforgettable reckonings with grief (for her husband in The
Year of Magical Thinking and for her daughter in Blue Nights) to her exploration of two iconic
regions of America in South and West through the indelible pieces of reporting collected from
across her career in Let Me Tell You What I Mean the books collected here show Didion at her
best: bearing witness to our history illuminating our culture and shedding light on the human
condition.
