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Vintage International Ser.: The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion (1997, Trade Paperback)
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Didion at her finest" -- USA Today * An intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and getting hands a little dirty in the process, complete with conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations. From the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean 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 . She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in her his business even 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. Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679752854
ISBN-139780679752851
eBay Product ID (ePID)332042
Product Key Features
Publication Year1997
TopicThrillers / Crime, Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Political, General, Political
Book TitleLast Thing He Wanted
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorJoan Didion
Book SeriesVintage International Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7in.
Item Length8in.
Item Weight8.4 Oz
Item Width5.2in.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition21
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, "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, "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
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Number of Pages240 Pages
