The Resource South and West, Joan Didion
South and West, Joan Didion
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The item South and West, Joan Didion represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Grosse Pointe Public Library.
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 3 audio discs (2 hr., 51 min.)
- Note
-
- Title from label
- Compact discs
- Isbn
- 9780525494188
- Label
- South and West
- Title
- South and West
- Statement of responsibility
- Joan Didion
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Didion, Joan
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- autobiography
- Music parts
- not applicable
- PerformerNote
- Read by Kimberly Farr ; with a foreword written and read by Nathaniel Rich
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Farr, Kimberly
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Didion, Joan
- Automobile travel
- Novelists, American
- Didion, Joan
- Automobile travel
- Novelists, American
- Travel
- Southern States
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- South and West, Joan Didion
- Note
-
- Title from label
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn964501809
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 3 audio discs (2 hr., 51 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780525494188
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780525494188
- Other physical details
- digital, CD audio
- Publisher number
-
- PRHA 6826
- 40c70o
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)964501809
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- South and West, Joan Didion
- Note
-
- Title from label
- Compact discs
- Capture and storage technique
- unknown
- Carrier category
- audio disc
- Carrier category code
-
- sd
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn964501809
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in.
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 3 audio discs (2 hr., 51 min.)
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9780525494188
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- mass produced
- Kind of material
- plastic with metal
- Media category
- audio
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- s
- Other control number
- 9780525494188
- Other physical details
- digital, CD audio
- Publisher number
-
- PRHA 6826
- 40c70o
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
- sound disc
- Speed
- 1.4m. per second (discs)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)964501809
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
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