Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir

Title: Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir Author: Cory Leadbeater ISBN: 9780063371576 Publisher: Ecco Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Memoir 1608057 Publisher Description: A brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of childhood, Cory had sought refuge from the rougher parts of life in the pages of books. Suddenly, he found himself the personal assistant to a titan of literature: Joan Didion. In the nine years that followed, Cory shared Joan's rarefied world, transformed not only by her blazing intellect but by