South and West : from a notebook / Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524732790
- ISBN: 1524732796
- Physical Description: xx, 126 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
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- Formatted Contents Note:
- Notes on the South -- California notes.
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- Subject:
- Didion, Joan.
Didion, Joan > Travel > Southern States.
Hearst, Patricia, 1954- > Trials, litigation, etc.
Nineteen seventies.
Biography as a literary form.
United States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Southern States > Social life and customs > 20th century.
California > Social life and customs > 20th century. - Genre:
- Autobiographies.
Essays.
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