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Vintage International Ser.: The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion (1997, Trade Paperback)

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Last Thing He Wanted, Paperback by Didion, Joan, ISBN 0679752854, ISBN-13 9780679752851, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Leaving the presidential campaign she had been covering for a major newspaper to do a favor for her father, journalist Elena McMahon finds herself trapped on an island in which intrigue, assassination, and arms dealing have superseded tourism as the major industry. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

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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