After Henry - Brossura

Didion, Joan

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ISBN 10: 0679745394 ISBN 13: 9780679745396

Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1993

Riassunto

In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away. A bracing amalgam of skepticism and sympathy, After Henry is further proof of Joan Didion's infallible radar for the true spirit of our age.

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Recensione:

"Joan Didion has great instincts for metaphor. She can take an ordinary object . . . and make it as ominous as Hitchcock. . . . She's writing truths about American culture in the sand at our feet. . . . With Didion leading, you could well follow one of her paragraphs into hell."
—Boston Globe

"[Didion's] reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature. . . . She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture."
—The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Joan Didion was born in California and lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and seven previous books of nonfiction.

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• Editore: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679745394
• ISBN 13: 9780679745396
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320