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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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Details
- 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
- Didion, Joan
- Essays
- Nineteen seventies
- Hearst, Patricia, 1954- > Trials, litigation, etc
- Biography as a literary form
- California > Social life and customs > 20th century
- United States > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Didion, Joan > Travel > Southern States
- Southern States > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Autobiographies
- 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