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Jul 11, 2017
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South and West: From a Notebook

Joan Didion

Knopf; First Edition edition

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live”, Didion famously wrote. Here you could imagine a wag in her publisher’s office suggesting “We sell stories in order to make a living” – for this slim volume, this set of notes “from a notebook” arrives at a time when Didion perhaps doesn’t …

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