The Last Love Song (127 page)

The Panic in Needle Park

Play It As It Lays

A Star Is Born

Such Good Friends

True Confessions

Up Close & Personal

The World According to Garp
(Irving)

World War II

WPA

Wright Act

Writers Guild

writers' strike of 1988

writing style, Didion.
See also specific Didion works

criticism of

cultural/aesthetic observations playing role in

literary criticism and

narrative drifts/fractures and

as New Journalism

note-taking and

point of view and

rhythm dictating storytelling and

syntax choices in

Wurster, William Wilson

Yale University

Yardley, Jonathan

The Year of Magical Thinking
(Didion)

reception of

syntax and

themes of

The Year of Magical Thinking
(play)

reception of

Yeats, William Butler

Ynez Camacho, Maria

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again
(Phillips)

Young, Al

Young, Jean Allison

Zanuck, Darryl F.

Zanuck, Richard D.

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
(Suzuki)

Ziffren, Paul

Zion, Sidney

Zukor, Adolph

Zuma Canyon Orchids

 

About the Author

TRACY DAUGHERTY
is the author of four novels, four short story collections, a book of personal essays, and two earlier literary biographies. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
The Paris Review
,
McSweeney's
, and
The Georgia Review
, among others.
Hiding Man
, his biography of Donald Barthelme, was a
New York Times
and
New Yorker
Notable Book of the Year.
Just One Catch
, a biography of Joseph Heller, was excerpted in
Vanity Fair
. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Southern Methodist University and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Visit his Web site at:
www.tracydaugherty.com
or sign up for email updates
here
.

 

Also by
Tracy Daugherty

Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller

Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme

 

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Epigraphs

Preface: Narrative Limits

Part One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Part Two

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Part Three

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Part Four

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Part Five

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Part Six

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Part Seven

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Part Eight

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Part Nine

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Epilogue: Life Limits

Photographs

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Also by Tracy Daugherty

Copyright

 

THE LAST LOVE SONG.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

 

Daugherty, Tracy.

      The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion / Tracy Daugherty. — First edition.

          pages cm

    ISBN 978-1-250-01002-5 (hardcover)

    ISBN 978-1-4668-7740-5 (e-book)

  1.  Didion, Joan.   2.  Novelists, American—20th century—Biography.   I.  Title.

    PS3554.I33Z57 2015

    813
'
.54—dc23

    [B]

2015017162

 

e-ISBN 9781466877405

 

First Edition: August 2015