Sto caricando le informazioni...

Diglielo da parte mia (1977)

di Joan Didion

Utenti	Recensioni	Popolarità	Media voti	Citazioni
1,060	13	19,293	(3.88)	47
Fiction. Literature. HTML: A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean "[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy.�?� �??Los Angeles Times Book Review Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of Boca Grande's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," Charlotte has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence. A Book of Common Prayer is written with the..… (altro)

tutti i membri

▾Utenti

Aggiunto di recente da	Nonnyj, Dorothy2012, FILBO, Shirker31, philcbull, designstyle, reecejones, kpacosa, OpenBooksOnTheGrass, Shelbiesumner
Biblioteche di personaggi celebri	Nelson Algren, Eeva-Liisa Manner

▾Etichette

▾Consigli di LibraryThing

▾Liste

Top Five Books of 2013 (1,375)

Top Five Books of 2021 (191)

TML 200 Best Books 1950-1999 (71)

» 3 altro

Swinging Seventies (179)

Books I Want to Read in 2012 (5)

End of Your Life Book Club (106)

▾Ti piacerà?

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

▾Conversazioni (Su link)

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 47 citazioni

▾Recensioni di utenti

data ▼ | voti

1-5 di 13 (prossimo | mostra tutto)

57000

FILBO | Apr 19, 2024 |

It is not a book of common prayer! It is a fascinating mystery that contains a number of difficult-to-grasp characters. I enjoyed it a lot and will not give any spoilers. (

)

RickGeissal | Aug 16, 2023 |

The story here reminded me a lot of a collection of stories by Deborah Eisenberg, though I found Didion's treatment of similar material a lot less tedious. The material didn't interest me a lot and neither did the characters, but the thing is just so well written that it was hard to put it down in spite of its lack, for me, of surface appeal. The Bogart character felt pulled right out of Gaddis and, though he was a vile character, his funny portrayal probably helped keep me in the book. (

)

dllh | Jan 6, 2021 |

This was my first novel by Joan Didion. I remember when I was in college her novels were frequently required reading in current literature classes, but I never had to read anything by her. I had a desire to, just never got around to it. I enjoyed my first experience most thoroughly and was quite impressed. She has a unique voice and a strong command of the language. This particular novel reminded me of [b:A Flag For Sunrise|241951|A Flag for Sunrise|Robert Stone|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1408312819l/241951._SY75_.jpg|818563] by [a:Robert Stone|41938|Robert Stone|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1510071443p2/41938.jpg]. I will say that you never felt you had a firm handle on some of the characters, but for me that was part of the attraction. You were always looking to the next description or the next dialogue to solidify the picture. (

)

afkendrick | Oct 24, 2020 |

The best of Didion's California novels, semi-autobiographical (

)

atufft | Jul 4, 2019 |

data ▼ | voti

1-5 di 13 (prossimo | mostra tutto)

▾Recensioni da fonti esterne

1 recensione

aggiungi una recensione

thingScore unrated

aggiunto da ninita | modificaDagens Nyheter, Ulrika Milles

▾Altri autori

» Aggiungi altri autori (5 potenziali)

▾Relazioni tra serie ed opera

Appartiene alle Collane Editoriali

LR, 1982

Vintage International

È contenuto in

Joan Didion: The 1960s & 70s di Joan Didion

▾Premi e riconoscimenti

Premi e riconoscimenti

Clifton Fadiman Medal (2004)

National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalista – Narrativa – 1977)

Menzioni

The New York Times Best Books of the Year (1977)

New York Times bestseller (Narrativa – 1977)

Elenchi di rilievo

Erica Jong's Top 100 20th Century Novels by Women

The Modern Library: the 200 best novels in English since 1950

guarda la cronologia

▾Informazioni generali

Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.

Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.

Titolo canonico

Diglielo da parte mia

Titolo originale

Titoli alternativi

Data della prima edizione

1977

Personaggi

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Grace Strasser-Mendana

Charlotte Douglas

Marin

Luoghi significativi

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

Boca Grande

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Eventi significativi

Film correlati

Epigrafe

Dedica

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

This book is for Brenda Berger Garner,
for James Jerrett Didion,
and also for Allene Talmey and Henry Robbins.

Incipit

Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.

I will be her witness.

Citazioni

Ultime parole

Nota di disambiguazione

Redattore editoriale

Elogi

Lingua originale

DDC/MDS Canonico

LCC canonico

▾Riferimenti

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese (1)

A Book of Common Prayer

▾Descrizioni del libro

Fiction. Literature. HTML:

A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean

"[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy.�?� �??Los Angeles Times Book Review

Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of Boca Grande's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," Charlotte has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence.

A Book of Common Prayer is written with the..

▾Descrizioni da biblioteche

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

▾Descrizione degli utenti di LibraryThing

Descrizione del libro

Riassunto haiku