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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>With her usual sharp eye for the realities of American life, Joan Didion explores an American city of glitter and glamour, a city of racial tension and fast money whose culture, history, and state of mind are inextricably linked with Cuba, only 90 miles away. An Editor's Choice selection of the New York Times and Time.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>Miami</i> is not just a portrait of a city, but a masterly study of immigration and exile, passion, hypocrisy, and political violence, f<b>rom the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean.</i></b></b> <p/>It is where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south.</p><p>As Didion follows Miami's drift into a Third World capital, she also locates its position in the secret history of the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs to the Reagan doctrine and from the Kennedy assassination to the Watergate break-in. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Her prose is . . . finely tuned . . . . [<i>Miami</i>] turns much sunny light into a murky underwater darkness full of sharks and evil shadows. --<i>The New York Times</i></p><p>Didion's <i>Miami</i> is a kaleidoscope of impressions, and a litany of violence, intrigue, vengeance, political manipulation, and broken dreams. --<i>Boston Globe</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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