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Joan Didion is an essayest and novelist with a rather cool, minimalist style. I happen to really like her collection of essays, THE WHITE ALBUM (Simon and Schuster), which has just recently been reissued, and her novel, THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (Simon and Schuster). She is obsessed with the notion of narrative--or rather, the lack of narrative order--in our everyday lives. Her work is curiously dispassionate and yet intensely personal. She writes about disasters, the possibility of disaster, and the mindset of those who live with both affluence and disaster. Granted, she is not to every taste. |
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Maureen F. McHugh (mcq@en.com) Updated October 4, 1995 |
