Reviews - South and West: From a Notebook

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South and West: From a Notebook

Joan Didion

3.63 AVERAGE

iancarpenter's review against another edition

4.0

Simple, meandering observations as Didion travels around the south but her eye is unique and I could luxuriate in her prose forever.

thehancam's review against another edition

5.0

“At the center of this story there is a terrible secret, a kernel of cyanide, and the secret is that the story doesn’t matter, doesn’t make any difference, doesn’t figure. The snow still falls in the Sierra. The Pacific still trembles in its bowl. The great tectonic plates strain against each other while we sleep and wake. Rattlers in the dry grass. Sharks beneath the Golden Gate... I am trying to place myself in history.”