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Sack, John

 
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Synopsis

An appealingly extravagant wit, The Los Angeles Times."Sheer intellectual bliss," The Los Angeles Times."A Passionate and erudite critique of American culture," Library Journal."One man's time capsule, lovingly gathered and carefully packed and then deliberately dropped from a great height, shattering on impact into brilliant smithereens. A tender, funny, language-drunk mix of autobiography, confession, commonplace book, humanist battlecry, it's completely wonderful," Michael Herr, author of Dispatches.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

An appealingly extravagant wit, The Los Angeles Times."Sheer intellectual bliss," The Los Angeles Times."A Passionate and erudite critique of American culture," Library Journal."One man's time capsule, lovingly gathered and carefully packed and then deliberately dropped from a great height, shattering on impact into brilliant smithereens. A tender, funny, language-drunk mix of autobiography, confession, commonplace book, humanist battlecry, it's completely wonderful," Michael Herr, author of Dispatches.

Biographie de l'auteur

Fingerprint is JOHN SACK'S seventh book. Two of them, M(Great reportage New York Times) and Lieutenant Calley (A remarkable document-Los Angeles Times), were based on his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam. A former writer, producer, and special correspondent in CBS News, he has also been a contract contributor to The New Yorker, a contributing editor of Esquire, and a contributing editor of Playboy. He lives in Los Angeles.

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