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Laddar... Anteckningarav Joan Didion
   Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   ) turtleburger | Jan 14, 2024 |  ) alison-rose | May 22, 2023 | -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. (  ) wolfe.myles | Feb 28, 2023 | ) nospmisannah | Nov 27, 2022 | A delightful and scattered little volume, which is to be expected from its content, and perhaps a good introduction to someone I am just beginning to read. It provided an excellent sense of atmosphere that at once seemed vague, honest, and vivid. Two notes: Nathaniel Rich's foreward is awful, already dated just two years later, and projects an elitism onto Didion's writing that is simply not there in the text. I didn't realize in 2016 that the year would mark all nonfiction with a dull brand of specific political comment. The only redeeming quality of these offensive little pages was how they drew the attention to Didion's occasional "The sense of ..." fragments, which were remarkable little tones. Also, I find it entertaining that typography pages seem to be more commonly found in books set in Bodoni than any other font. The font itself isn't half as obtrusive as the perpetual notes on its history. ( ) et.carole | Jan 21, 2022 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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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 Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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 Google Books — Laddar...GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)818.54Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg: (3.53)
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