The Last Thing He Wanted - (Vintage International) by Joan Didion (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Creating a "menacing world where the reader is held hostage" ("Los Angeles Times"), the legendary author of "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" now trains her eye on the far frontiers of the Monroe Doctrine, where history dissolves into conspiracy--Dallas, 1963; Iran Contra in 1984--and fashions a moral thriller as hypnotic and provocative as any by Joseph Conrad or Graham Greene.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - <b><b>Didion at her finest --<i>USA Today <b>-</b> </i></b></b>An intricate, fast-paced novel <b>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 <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i></b> <p/></b>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 <i>The Washington Post</i>. 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. <p/>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. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Gripping ... Didion at her finest. --<i>USA Today</i></p><p>Simultaneously lucid and surreal ... the result is entrancing. --<i>The New Yorker</i></p><p>Remarkable.... Didion has created a menacing world where the reader is held hostage. --<i>Los Angeles Times<br></i></p><p>Dark detail, understatement and intelligence work their astonishing magic. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</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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