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The last thing he wanted

Didion, Joan more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Audience: General/trade
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publication Date: 17/02/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

RRP: $19.99
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It is 1984. Journalist Elena McMahon, watching her evasive, gruff father’s life ebbing away before her, clutches at understanding him to grasp little more than air. But harder, keener forces impel her to do his bidding, to go naked into a ‘situation’ in Central America, because ‘things were hotting up again’.

' I read it twice for pure delight.' Guardian 'Fast-paced, witty, inventive! "The Last Thing He Wanted" is a creation of high seriousness, a thriller composed with all the resources of a unique gift for imaginative literature.' New York Review of Books 'An impressive, fast-talking, hard-boiled, wise-cracking, tough-guy of a novel.' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday PRAISE FOR THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING 'Her poetic writing has a spell-like charm that is profoundly affecting.' Observer 'This brave book maps a year!when the world flipped over to expose the underside of cool where things go bad.' The Times 'The subject may be bleak, but her tender treatment makes it a book that we should all read.' Daily Mail

Title: The last thing he wanted
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Contributors: By (author) Joan Didion

ISBN 13: 9780007454242
ISBN 10: 0007454244

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Publication Date: 17/02/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Dewey Classification: 813.54 (DC22)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction

Format: Paperback
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Weight: 170g