Bibliograph

South and west, from a notebook, Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich

Type

Label

South and west, from a notebook, Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

South and west

Oclc number

961249703

Responsibility statement

Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich

Sub title

from a notebook

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."--Jacket flap

Table Of Contents

Notes on the South -- California notes

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