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.
The Last Thing He Wanted
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Author: Didion, Joan
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780679752851
Details:
Author: Didion, Joan
Brand: Vintage
Color: White
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 02-09-1997
Part Number: 0679752854_used
Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches Languages: English
EAN: 9780679752851
