El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy. Salvador is a restless and unflinching masterclass in the art of reportage by one of the great literary stylists of the twentieth century.
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El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy. Salvador is a restless and unflinching masterclass in the art of reportage by one of the great literary stylists of the twentieth century.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good. Tight, square, uncreased spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Very light shelf-wear. A typographic feast here with matching 1980s cover treatments by the great Lawrence Ratzkin, featuring tight spacing, a dynamic display face with distinctive abbreviated 'J', and elegant use of an italicized Garamond. A rare venture by Didion into international political reportage (she called the two-week trip 'terrifying'), Salvador details the dark tragedy of the Salvadoran Civil War, the US government's support of its far-right death squads, and the impact of the country's 1982 earthquake. 108 pp. New Journalism.
this book is a reality to the word, how many people lived and suffer. i would recommended for some of our teenagers to see how much more they can do in their life with the benefit of the freedom (liberty