National Bestseller Joan Didion has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.*One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's Bazaar* “Notes on the South” traces a road trip 4/5(6). · While Joan Didion may have become famous in the s, she is still producing insightful work. And in one of the most-anticipated books of , Didion has released “South and West: From a Notebook,” in which the writer offers two extended excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks. “South and West: From a Notebook reveals the author at her most fascinatingly unfiltered, recording folksy vernacular at a motel pool, having G Ts with Walker Percy, and searching fruitlessly for Faulkner’s grave in an Oxford cemetery her riffs on everything from Gertrude Atherton to crossing the Golden Gate bridge for the first time in three-inch heels captures the thrill of a writer discovering her /5().
SOUTH AND WEST From a Notebook By Joan Didion pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $ Joan Didion's California has always seemed to me familiar, yet exotic. Familiar because I recognized instantly the. Didion traveled the south heading west to cover the Hearst trial In San Francisco however the article never materialized. She concludes describing the west and her hometown In California presenting a contrast of western life as outward oriented unencumbered by extreme poverty and provincial staidness like that of the south. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "One of contemporary literature's most revered essayists revives her raw records from a s road trip across the American southwest her acute observations of the country's culture and history feel particularly resonant today." —Harper's Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I.
National Bestseller Joan Didion has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.*One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's Bazaar* “Notes on the South” traces a road trip. Didion traveled the south heading west to cover the Hearst trial In San Francisco however the article never materialized. She concludes describing the west and her hometown In California presenting a contrast of western life as outward oriented unencumbered by extreme poverty and provincial staidness like that of the south. South and West: From a Notebook. South and West.: Joan Didion. Alfred A. Knopf, - BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY - pages. 6 Reviews. From the best-selling author of the National Book.
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