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Unas apasionantes memorias sobre la California natal de Joan Didion, contadas con una inconfundible mirada personal y emotiva.

«Irresistible [...]. Un canto al lugar dónde su familia ha vivido durante generaciones, pero uno lleno de preguntas y dudas». --The New York Times

Joan Didion dedica estas memorias a su California natal, el estado al que, siglos atrás, llegaron sus antepasados y al que ella ató gran parte de su vida y de su obra. «Este libro representa una exploración de mis propias confusiones acerca del lugar y la forma en que crecí [...] unos malentendidos y malinterpretaciones que forman parte de quien soy en tanta medida que todavía hoy solo les hago frente de refilón», decía Didion sobre un libro tan intelectualmente provocador como íntimo.

Mezclando historia, crónica, memoria y crítica literaria, la autora explora los romances de California con la tierra y con el agua, sus deudas no reconocidas con los ferrocarriles, la industria aeroespacial y con el Gobierno central, así como el contraste entre su culto al individualismo y su fetiche por las cárceles.

Ya sea escribiendo sobre sus antepasados, sobre depredadores sexuales, políticos corruptos o escritores (sin excluirse a sí misma), Didion vuelve a demostrar aquí su incomparable capacidad de observación. De donde soy nos regala una mirada única al dibujar un mapa histórico y personal de la Costa Oeste de Estados Unidos, pero también al reflexionar sobre la escritura mientras revisa, a través del arte, la política, la economía y las vivencias de sus antepasados, el ideal de la «tierra prometida» a lo largo de dos siglos.

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline" -The Baltimore Sun
Didion--a native Californian--reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours.

Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir, and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California's romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.

Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
About the Author: Joan Didion (Sacramento, 1934 - Nueva York, 2021) fue una célebre novelista y periodista estadounidense. Graduada por la Universidad de Berkeley en California, se le concedió el doctorado honoris causa en letras por las universidades de Harvard y Yale.

Comenzó trabajando en la revista Vogue, donde ejerció de editora y crítica de cine, y fue colaboradora habitual de The New York Review of Books. Junto a su marido, John Gregory Dunne, escribió también guiones cinematográficos, entre los que se encuentra el basado en Según venga el juego, llevada al cine por Frank Perry y protagonizada por un joven Anthony Perkins.

Es autora de las novelas Río revuelto, Según venga el juego, Book of Common Prayer, Democracy y The Last Thing He Wanted. También de varios libros de memorias, como Where I Was From, Noches azules y el aclamado El año del pensamiento mágico, que fue ganador del National Book Award y finalista del Premio Pulitzer y del National Book Critics Circle Award. A lo largo de su carrera publicó diversos libros de ensayo sobre la cultura y la política norteamericanas, una selección de los cuales se incluyen en Los que sueñan el sueño dorado, así como Lo que quiero decir, una colección de sus primeros artículos y crónicas, o sus anotaciones inéditas, recogidas en Sur y Oeste. La mayor parte de su obra en lengua española ha sido publicada en Literatura Random House.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788439739753
  • Publisher: Prh Grupo Editorial
  • Publisher Imprint: Literatura Random House
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8439739753
  • Publisher Date: 11 Oct 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: Spanish
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 367 gr


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