The Last Thing He Wanted

Didion, Joan

| 1996

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "Didion at her finest" --USA Today - An intricate, fast-paced novel 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 The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean 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 The Washington Post. 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. Didion...

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Emma Fägerlind

2020-02-24

Betyg

Jag hänger faktiskt inte riktigt med, är väl för oinsatt i historien från början (dvs vet ingenting).

2020-02-08

Betyg

Välskriven. Vackert språk. Men det politiska korrupta och snåriga landskapet som målas upp intresserar mig inte värst. Alla dessa intriger. Tröttsamt.