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Indlæser... South and West: From a Notebook (Vintage International) (udgave 2018)af Joan Didion (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. First-rate writing; one of Didion's best ( ) -South and West is something of a revised travel journal that contains her observations and experiences as well as transcribed notes that she took while doing research for her writing -Her observations can be piercingly sharp when she is faced with prejudice (which she responds to with wit and cynicism), but her clear love and facination with the south is evident in her writing. -provides incite into her methodology as a literary journalist. -Didion's has a talent for painting a word picture and her descriptions are emmersive and captivating. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Biography & Autobiography.
Literary Criticism.
Nonfiction.
HTML:From the best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks??writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Joan Didion has always kept notebooks: of overheard dialogue, observations, interviews, drafts of essays and articles??and here is one such draft that traces a road trip she took with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, in June 1970, through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. She interviews prominent local figures, describes motels, diners, a deserted reptile farm, a visit with Walker Percy, a ladies' brunch at the Mississippi Broadcasters' Convention. She writes about the stifling heat, the almost viscous pace of life, the sulfurous light, and the preoccupation with race, class, and heritage she finds in the small towns they pass through. And from a different notebook: the "California Notes" that 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 city, its social hierarchy, the Hearsts, and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here, too, is the beginning of her thinking about the West, its landscape, the western women who were heroic for her, and her own lineage, all of which would appear later in her acclaimed 2003 book, Where I Was From. One of TIME??s most anticipated books of 2017 One of The New York Times Book Review's ??What You??ll Be Reading in 2017? Includued among the Best Books of March 2017 by both LitHub and Signature No library descriptions found. |
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