Inspired by that NY Times list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, I read three short memoirs that I already had copies of in my library. Here’s the first. (These will be briefer ‘short takes’ compared to my usual lengthy summaries with comments.)
I’d read bits of a couple other Didion books before this one came out in 2005, and it must have gotten some buzz, because I bought it right away; my copy is a “second printing before publication.” Maybe I was intrigued by the title, too.
(Knopf, Oct 2005, 227pp.)
Didion, who died in 2021, was a novelist, essayist and screenwriter, and she was married to John Gregory Dunne, also a novelist and screenwriter. (They wrote the film True Confessions together, based on his novel.)
