false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175419486m/513180.jpg 513180 10 Elena McMahon is a reporter for the <i>Washington Post</i> and the unlikely inheritor of her father's complex and secretive life as an arms dealer for the U.S. Government in Central America. The year is 1984, and as she flies to an unnamed island off the coast of Costa Rica, she is oblivious to the spies, American military personnel, and the consequences of her father's errors that await her. She's also unprepared for the advances of Treat Morrison, an American diplomat whose service under six administrations has made him a "crisis junkie." Treat narrates this story, offering a unique perspective on Elena, a woman who abandons one life for another. 4295 2 9 1996 The Last Thing He Wanted total:284|5:33|4:94|3:112|2:36|1:9| 284 958 415 34 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Aug 21 06:33:10 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 06:33:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Aug 08 04:21:48 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 04:22:02 -0700 2008 As always, craft-wise Didion is a consum...more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Dec 21 06:39:05 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 06:39:22 -0800 2007 After Henry. I recently read the moving The Year of Magical Thinking. But I had never read one of her novels until I saw The Last Thing He Wanted recommended by Ben Fountain ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 11:34:52 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 29 18:10:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 20:18:21 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 20:21:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 10:50:09 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 11:49:01 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 15:04:21 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 20:15:43 -0700 2009
Another dazzler that I couldn't help but flip back to page 1.]]> 0 0 false false Tue Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 15:04:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 15:05:26 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Wed Dec 03 09:43:12 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 09:46:14 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Feb 14 15:45:13 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 15:45:40 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Mon Jun 08 15:09:56 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 15:10:41 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Apr 20 20:41:29 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 17:50:58 -0700 2008
I do appr...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 28 16:43:08 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 16:45:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 07 18:17:07 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 07:48:28 -0700 2009 It's intriguing how often the (justified) paranoia of Didion's narrator echoes her own narration in "The White Album."
Her taut, unadorned prose is always a gift.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 10 06:53:50 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 10 06:55:58 -0700 2007 Slouching Towards Bethlehem_ is probably my favorite nonfiction collection. It proves that her view of the world is deep, and that as a writer she actively resists nihilism. Yet her fiction depresses me; I can't concentrate on the story, and, hal...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 09:56:02 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 27 08:06:17 -0800 2008
Her experience with sim...more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 08:15:26 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 07:29:27 -0800 2008 MAGICAL THINKING" by Didion and was looking forward to another experience. Maybe it was just the "mood" i was in, but I only found this "good" in spurts. I would like to try another one of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 14 22:57:05 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 22:57:10 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 23:32:19 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 14 15:39:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 05:17:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 05:19:29 -0800 2009 Magical Thinking so I wanted to try a novel by Joan Didion. Her writing style is staccato (for lack of a better word) and though I enjoyed passages - it was more difiicult to follow the book as a whole as perspective changed throughout.more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=513180