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Article: After Henry.
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- Commonweal
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- October 23, 1992
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AFTER HENRY
Joan Didion
Simon & Schuster, $21.50, 336 pp.
The title piece of Joan Didion's new collection of twelve essays coveting politics and culture in Washington, California, and New York refers to Henry Robbins, one of Didion's early editors, who "had fallen dead, age fifty-one, to the floor of the 14th Street subway station...." It sounds the leitmotif that ties together most of these essays, all written within the last several years. Didion is persuaded that we live by the "narratives" we tell ourselves or that get told by others, the most potentially distorting being those "public narrative[s] based at no point on observable reality." ...
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