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South and West : from a notebook

Title
South and West : from a notebook / Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich.
Author
Didion, Joan
Publication
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

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Additional Authors
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-
Description
xx, 126 pages; 20 cm
Summary
  • Two excerpts from never-before-seen notebooks offer insights into the author's literary mind and process and includes notes on her Sacramento upbringing, her life in the Gulf states, her views on prominent locals and her experiences during a formative "Rolling Stone" assignment.
  • Joan Didion has always kept notebooks of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays, and copies of articles. "Notes on the South" traces a road trip she took with her husband John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with prominent local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage seem to suggest a South largely unchanged today. "California notes" began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial of 1976. Though Didion never wrote the piece, watching the trial and being in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento.
Uniform Title
Prose works. Selections
Alternative Title
Prose works.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Essays.
Note
  • "This is a Borzoi book"--Verso of title page.
Contents
Notes on the South -- California notes.
Call Number
JFC 17-416
ISBN
  • 9781524732790
  • 1524732796
LCCN
2016962161
OCLC
961249703
Author
Didion, Joan, author.
Title
South and West : from a notebook / Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich.
Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Rich, Nathaniel, 1980- writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
JFC 17-416
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