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    • Game of Thrones
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Joan Didion

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    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
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    • Honey
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    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
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JOAN DIDION

Joan Didion (1934- ) is a novelist, journalist, and memoirist from California who for over 50 years has written some of the sharpest and most evocative analyses of American culture, politics, and mise en scène.  Her novels capture a victorious postwar people struggling with anxieties, doubts, and the chloroform of abundance.  Although the literary influences on her seem clear (Joseph Conrad, Hemingway, noir, perhaps some Beat), she is justly famous for her own cool, distanced, and all-seeing style.  Her writing imbues us with awe.  If you want to understand America, you must read Didion.

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Where I Was From
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Blue Nights
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The Year of Magical Thinking
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The Last Thing He Wanted
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Run River
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Democracy
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A Book of Common Prayer
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South and West
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
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Play as it Lays
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The White Album
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Slouching Toward Bethlehem
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (Picador Modern Classic)
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Political Fictions
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Miami
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After Henry
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Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11
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Salvador
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Conversations with Joan Didion
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The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
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  • About Us/
    • Our Philosophy
    • Our History
    • FAQ
  • Events/
    • New Events
    • What Goes Around, Comes Around
    • What Goes On Here . . . .
  • Merchandise/
    • Amy June Bates, Artist and Book Illustrator
    • Anarchism
    • Ancient Egypt
    • Audiobooks: Fiction
    • Audiobooks: Nonfiction
    • Audiobooks: Poetry and Drama
    • The Beat Generation
    • Bibles, Study Guides, and Accessories
    • Books, New & Notable
    • Books: Children's New & Notable
    • Books in Original Languages or Translated from English
    • Boxed Notecards
    • Charles Bukowski
    • Cookbooks
    • Dance
    • Decomposition Books
    • Downton Abbey and its world
    • DVDs
    • Eric Sloane
    • French & Indian War
    • Games
    • Game of Thrones
    • Graphic Lit: DC and Marvel
    • Graphic Lit: Vintage and Independent
    • Harry Potter
    • Honey
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2017
    • Independent Bookstore Day 2018
    • Joan Didion
    • Local Authors Past & Present
    • Lovecraft and Howard
    • Marianne Moore and Her World
    • Neil Gaiman
    • Notebooks
    • Only at Whistlestop, including gift cards
    • Out of Print Clothing and Accessories
    • Out of Print Sizing Guide for T-Shirts
    • Outdoors/Nature
    • Pennsylvania Outdoors
    • Pennsylvania Plain People
    • Puppets and Toys
    • Puzzles
    • Scotland & the Scottish Diaspora
    • Signed Copies
    • Staff Picks
    • Summer Reading Books for Local Schools
    • Vikings
    • Vintage Radio
    • Wendell Berry
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WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

Whistlestop Bookshop is an independent bookseller in Carlisle PA.  Founded in 1985, Whistlestop sells new and secondhand books  in all categories and a wide variety of sidelines, from magazines to puzzles, literary t-shirts to cds and dvds, from totes to local honey.  Our mission is to get the right books in the right hands at the right time.

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