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Bezig met laden... The Last Thing He Wanted (Vintage International) (origineel 1996; editie 1997)door Joan Didion
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "have read" is a stretch. [x] didion. "check that box", uncatalogue the remainder of her oeuvre. ( ) It is in my nature to decline assessments of the writings of people to whom I look up in awe and gratitude for what they have given us. I liked this book a whole lot and intend to read it again in the not too distant future. It is a gem, IMHO! A mystery within a mystery? Oh, you've heard that phrase before. Yes, it is a mystery and it treats of some people who are .... Oh, I'm going to stop there. It is brief, it is fascinating, and you are better off reading it cold. Enjoy! Having never read Joan Didion before, I was expecting great things from her writing. The premise of this novel got my attention, yet I was unimpressed by the writing and had a hard time following the story. This would have been okay, if the character development had been really amazing, but that too fell flat. I don't think I'll be reading any more Didion any time soon. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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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." From the Hardcover edition. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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