![]() Didion writes about snakes, heat, sports, racial issues, and a strange coolness she experienced from many of the locals. There are also brief notes, snippets of overheard conversations (in restaurants, on the street, in motels, libraries, around motel swimming pools), and sights along the road, viewed from her rental car. Here are many of the splendid, sharp-eyed sentences for which she has long been admired. However, she retained her notes and observations, which compose this slender volume. (Also included are some pages about the author’s California homes in her youth.) Didion had intended to write a book about the South, but she just never got around to it. In 1970, Didion ( Blue Nights, 2011, etc.) took a sojourn in the Deep South, beginning in New Orleans and then heading to Mississippi and Alabama before returning to the Big Easy. A revealing publication from the celebrated prose stylist. ![]()
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