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National Bestseller

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's Bazaar

Joan Didion has always kept notebooks-of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. South and West gives us two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.

"Notes on the South" traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. "California Notes" began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion's signature irony and imagination in play, we're also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.

National Bestseller

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's Bazaar

Joan Didion has always kept notebooks-of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. South and West gives us two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape.

"Notes on the South" traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. "California Notes" began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion's signature irony and imagination in play, we're also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.

Über den Autor
Joan Didion; Foreword by Nathaniel Rich
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Reiseberichte
Region: Nord- und Mittelamerika
Rubrik: Reisen
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 130 S.
ISBN-13: 9780525434191
ISBN-10: 0525434194
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Didion, Joan
Hersteller: Random House LLC US
Vintage Books
Vintage International
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 202 x 131 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Joan Didion
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.01.2018
Gewicht: 0,165 kg
Artikel-ID: 109570194