A Train of Powder - Couverture souple

West, Rebecca

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566633192 ISBN 13 : 9781566633192

Editeur : Ivan R. Dee, 2000

Synopsis

Like most all of Rebecca Wests reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and forgiveness. The centerpiece of the book is Greenhouse with Cyclamens, a three-part essay on the Nuremberg trials written with precision, clarity, and daring insight. She also reports on two particularly brutal murder trials — one for a lynching in North Carolina, the other for a torso murder in England — and the espionage trial of a British telegrapher. Throughout, the question of guilt inspires Ms. West to feats of psychological detection wherein unerring craftsmanship and a powerful narrative sense combine to a high purpose — the pursuit of truth. An astonishing book.... As compelling as Court TV but without the frisson of voyeurism (and with the compensatory satisfactions of Wests breathtakingly lucid prose style), these elegant narratives remind us of the preciousness and fragility of our right to trial by jury.—Francine Prose. It is her unique magic to combine impressionism and precision, as if Monet and Ingres could somehow be fused. Time and again a passage begins as a sort of iridescent cloud, and culminates in a diamond point.—Telford Taylor, Saturday Review. Rebecca West...has raised journalism to a high art, breathing into it a depth, a poetry, a subtlety, and an understanding and compassion for human beings and their endless follies and tragedies that give it a legitimate place in contemporary literature.—William L. Shirer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Critic, journalist, novelist and feminist Rebecca West (1892-1983) is known for her studies of the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremburg, for which President Harry Truman called her "the world's best reporter." In 1959, West was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire, the female equivalent of an honorary knighthood.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ivan R. Dee
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566633192
• ISBN 13: 9781566633192
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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