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South and West de Joan Didion

South and West

Autor Joan Didion
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 ian 2018

De la autoarea cărții The Year of Magical Thinking vin și pasaje extinse din jurnalul ei nepublicat. Scrierile acestea oferă o privire revelatoare asupra procesului de creație al unei scriitoare legendare.
Joan Didion a păstrat dintotdeauna jurnale: frânturi de dialoguri, observații, interviuri, draft-uri de eseuri și articole, iar aici regăsim un draft al unei călătorii pe care Didion a întreprins-o împreună cu soțul ei, Jon Gregory Dunne, în vara anului 1970 prin Louisiana, Mississippi și Alabama.
Didion pune întrebări proeminentelor personaje locale, descrie moteluri, restaurante, o fermă de reptile părăsită, o vizită la Walker Percy, un brunch pentru doamne la Mississippi Broadcasters Convention.
Ea vorbește despre căldura sufocantă, ritmul în care oamenii din aceste locuri își duc viețile, lumina sulfuroasă și preocuparea pentru rasă, statut social și moștenire pe care o descoperă în micile orășele pe care le vizitează.
După Sud urmează Vest în jurnalul intitulat California Notes în care Didion reflectează la peisajele spectaculoase, femeile vestice și toată inspirația pe care a adunat-o pentru a scrie apreciata care lansată în 2003, Where I Was From.

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ISBN-13: 9780525434191
ISBN-10: 0525434194
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 131 x 202 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Editura: Random House LLC US
Colecția Vintage

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National Bestseller Joan Didion has always kept notebooks--of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. *One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Harper's Bazaar* "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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JOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for Vogue, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, Run River, in 1963. Didion’s other novels include A Book of Common Prayer (1977), Democracy (1984), and The Last Thing He Wanted (1996).
 
Didion’s first volume of essays, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, was published in 1968, and her second, The White Album, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include Salvador (1983), Miami (1987), After Henry (1992), Political Fictions (2001), Where I Was From (2003), We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006), Blue Nights (2011), South and West (2017) and Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021). Her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005.
 
In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts & Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: "An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion’s distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.” In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Didion said of her writing: "I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” She died in December 2021.

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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.