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Also by Joan Didion:

Blue Nights, November 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
The Year of Magical Thinking, February 2007
Paperback (reprint)
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, October 2006
Hardcover
Play It As It Lays, November 2005
Trade Size (reprint)
The Year of Magical Thinking, October 2005
Hardcover
Vintage Didion, January 2004
Trade Size (reprint)
Where I Was From, September 2003
Hardcover
Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11, June 2003
Paperback
Political Fictions, August 2002
Trade Size
A Book of Common Prayer, April 1995
Trade Size (reprint)
Democracy, April 1995
Trade Size

Democracy
Joan Didion

Knopf
April 1995
On Sale: April 1, 1995
ISBN: 0679754857
EAN: 9780679754855
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Fiction

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.

As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase.

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