The Last Thing He Wanted - Couverture rigide

Didion, Joan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679433317 ISBN 13 : 9780679433316

Editeur : Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Didion Joan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In her first novel in twelve years, the legendary author of Play It As It Lays and Slouching Toward Bethlehem trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy (Dallas in 1963, Iran Contra in 1984), and fashions a moral thriller as hypnotic and provacative as any by Joseph Conrad or Graham Greene.

In that latter year Elena McMahon walks off the presidential campaign she has been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father. Elena's father does deals. And it is while acting as his agent in one such deal—a deal that shortly goes spectacularly wrong—that she finds herself on an island where tourism has been superseded by arms dealing, covert action, and assassination. The Last Thing He Wanted is a tour de force—persuasive in its detail, dazzling in its ambiguities, enchanting in its style.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The first novel in over a decade from perhaps the most admired writer in America. It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father's life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp little more than air. But harder, keener forces impel her to do his bidding, to go naked into a ?situation' in Central America, ?because things were hotting up again'? A literary masterpiece.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Date d'édition: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679433317
• ISBN 13: 9780679433316
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 227