Miami - Couverture rigide

Didion, Joan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0671646648 ISBN 13 : 9780671646646

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Didion Joan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south.

As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence.

Revue de presse :

"Her prose is . . . finely tuned . . . . [Miami] turns much sunny light into a murky underwater darkness full of sharks and evil shadows." —The New York Times

"Didion's Miami is a kaleidoscope of impressions, and a litany of violence, intrigue, vengeance, political manipulation, and broken dreams." —Boston Globe

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0671646648
• ISBN 13: 9780671646646
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1