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| Author / Creator: | Didion, Joan. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Vintage International, 1994. |
| Description: | 108 pages ; 21 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11354528 |
| Summary: | "Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion "brings the country to life" ( The New York Times ), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror--its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.<br> <br> As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, Didion interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear." Here, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1983. |
| Physical Description: | 108 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0679751831 9780679751830 |