After Henry

This 1992 collection of Joan Didion`s, essays, originally published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, are set in New York, Washington, and Los Angeles, and are primarily about politics and current events. They include Didion`s thoughts on Patty Hearst, Ronald Reagan, and the 1988 Screen Guild writers` strike. The showpiece is the essay entitled Sentimental Journeys, her long appreciation of New York City, including its highs and lows and its many dark moments--not least, the case of the Central Park jogger. The Henry of the book`s title is in homage to her longtime editor, the legendary Henry Robbins, at Farrar Straus. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.