Democracy - (Vintage International) by Joan Didion (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Moving between Honolulu, Jakarta and Saigon, against the historical backdrop of the final withdrawal from Vietnam, this novel is a bitingly funny, cumulatively devastating post-mortem of our national mores and institutions. A U.S. Senator, his wife, senatorial groupies and international arms dealing intersect with one another in this blistering indictment of American amnesia.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b>From t<b><b><b>he bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <b><i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><b><i>--</i>a</b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b></b> <b>gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life.</b> <p/>Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, <i>Democracy </i>is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase.<b><br></b><br>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, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.</p><p>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>A gem . . . a beautifully composed story that moves with effortless authority and becomes astonishingly moving. . . . Stirring and memorable. --<i>Newsday</i></p><p>Striking, provocative, and brilliantly written. --<i>The Atlantic</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>JOAN DIDION is the author of five novels, ten books of nonfiction, and a play. Her book <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> won the National Book Award in 2005. She lives in New York. <p/></p>
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