Ebook: Vintage Didion
Author: DIDION Joan
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Knopf Group E-Books
- Language: English
- epub
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelists appreciation of the surreal. *Los Angeles Times Book Review
*Whether shes writing about civil war in Central America, political scurrility in Washington, or the tightl -braided myths and realities of her native California, Joan Didion expresses an unblinking vision of the truth.
Vintage Didion includes three chapters from Miami; an excerpt from Salvador; and three separate essays from *After Henry that cover topics from Ronald Reagan to the Central Park jogger case. *Also included is Clinton Agonistes from Political Fictions**, and Fixed Opinions, or the Hinge of History, a scathing analysis of the ongoing war on terror.
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From the Inside Flap
Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
?Didion has the instincts of an exceptional reporter and the focus of a historian . . . a novelist?s appreciation of the surreal.? ?*Los Angeles Times Book Review
*Whether she?s writing about civil war in Central America, political scurrility in Washington, or the tightl -braided myths and realities of her native California, Joan Didion expresses an unblinking vision of the truth.
Vintage Didion includes three chapters from Miami; an excerpt from Salvador; and three separate essays from *After Henry that cover topics from Ronald Reagan to the Central Park jogger case. *Also included is ?Clinton Agonistes? from Political Fictions**, and ?Fixed Opinions, or the Hinge of History,? a scathing analysis of the ongoing war on terror.
About the Author
Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780307548757