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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sian Cain

Want to buy Joan Didion’s sunglasses? That’ll be $27,000. Her broken clock? $35,000

Didion, pictured in shades in a still from the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.
Joan Didion, pictured in shades in the Netflix documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold. A pair of Didion’s sunglasses made by Celine sold for $27,000 at an auction of her estate in New York. Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy

An estate sale for the late Joan Didion has seen buyers flock to snap up the writer’s belongings, with everything from napkins to chunky Celine sunglasses to a broken desk clock selling for thousands above the estimated prices.

On Wednesday, the live auction at Stair Galleries in New York, titled An American Icon: Property From the Collection of Joan Didion, saw the late American writer’s furniture, art and books snapped up for hair-raising prices.

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