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?Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelist?s appreciation of the surreal.? ?Los Angeles Times Book Review

Whether she?s writing about civil war in Central America, political scurrility in Washington, or the tightl -braided myths and realities of her native California, Joan Didion expresses an unblinking vision of the truth.