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Joan Didion A Book of Common Prayer
Simon & Schuster 1977 0671224913 / 9780671224912 Hardcover Very Good
"tight, some light cover edge handling, has a remainder mark() Writing with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made her one of our most distinguished journalists, Joan Didion creates a shimmering novel of innocence and evil.A Book of Common Prayer is the story of two American women in the derelict Central American nation of Boca Grande. Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of the country's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets: Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. ID: mon0000104940"
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Joan Didion Democracy
Simon & Schuster 1984 0671419773 / 9780671419776 Hardcover Very Good
"tight binding, First Edition, light creasing and sun-fading of dust jacket() Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with ID: mon0000106004"
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Joan Didion Democracy
Simon & Schuster 1984 0671419773 / 9780671419776 Hardcover Very Good
"tight, some light cover edge handling,() Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase. ID: mon0000104947"
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Joan Didion Democracy
Simon & Schuster 1984 0671419773 / 9780671419776 Hardcover Very Good
"First Edition, tight binding, sticker pull mark onf front pastedown, remainder mark, sunning of dust jacket spine, lihgt rubbing and creasing to Dust Jacket() Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, the year in which much of this bitterly funny novel is set, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta, between romance, farce, and tragedy, ID: mon0000108250"
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Joan Didion Miami
Simon & Schuster 1987 0671646648 / 9780671646646 Hardcover Good
"no dust jacket available() It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south. As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence. From the Trade Paperback edition. ID: mon0000085786"
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Joan Didion Miami
Simon & Schuster 1987 0671646648 / 9780671646646 Hardcover Very Good
"tight, some light cover edge handling,() It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south. As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. Miami is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence. From the Trade Paperback edition. ID: mon0000104946"
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Joan Didion Salvador
Bookthrift Co 1983 0671470248 / 9780671470241 Hardcover Very Good
"'() ''Terror is the given of the place.'' The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb ''to disappear,'' Didion gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.'''' ID: mon0000082823"
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Joan. Didion Salvador.
L & O Dennys 1983 0886190150 / 9780886190156 Hardcover Very Good
"tight binding, light rubbing of edges, light rubbing and creasing of dust jacket() This ISBN is for the Canadian edition. In 1982 Joan Didion went to El Salvador. This is her report on what she saw there. An illuminating and authentic portrait of a society, a time and a place so terrifying that only she could capture it. ID: mon0000106003"
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