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SOUTH AND WEST - JOAN DIDION KARTONIERT (TB)

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.

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