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The Last Thing He Wanted by Didion, Joan
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- ISBN
- 9780679433316
- Book Title
- Last Thing He Wanted
- Item Length
- 8.6in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Espionage, General, Political
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 227 Pages
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This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Didion's incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and official language is as sinister as the events it is covering up.The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. Suddenly walking off the 1984 campaign, she finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father, Dick McMahon. She becomes embroiled in her Dick's business though she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing. It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined, something that includes Ambassador-at-Large Treat Austin Morrison and Alexander Brokaw, the ambassador to an unnamed Caribbean island. Into this startling vision of conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations, Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points up how spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock. As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly. This is our system, the one trying to create a context for democracy and getting its] hands a little dirty in the process.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679433317
ISBN-13
9780679433316
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330933
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Thing He Wanted
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Espionage, General, Political
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
227 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3554.I33l37 1996
Reviews
"Gripping...Didion at her finest." -USA Today "Simultaneously lucid and surreal . . . the result is entrancing." -The New Yorker "Remarkable. . . . Didion has created a menacing world where the reader is held hostage." -Los Angeles Times "Dark detail, understatement and intelligence work their astonishing magic." -The New York Times Book Review From the Trade Paperback edition.
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96-017084
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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