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Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life
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Esprit de Corps: Sketches from Diplomatic Life

Автор: Даррелл Лоренс Джордж
Серия: Antrobus stories #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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Eleven charming, delicate sketches of diplomatic life in service of the crown. After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over...
Where I Was From
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Where I Was From

Автор: Дидион Джоан
Язык: английский
Год: 2004
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In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to...
The White Album
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The White Album

Автор: Дидион Джоан
Язык: английский
Год: 1990
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First published in 1979, "The White Album "is a journalistic mosaic" "of American life in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. It includes, among other bizarre artifacts and personalities, reportage on the dark journeys and impulses of the...
Blue Nights
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Blue Nights

Автор: Дидион Джоан
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan...
Salvador
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Salvador

Автор: Дидион Джоан
Язык: английский
Год: 2011
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"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror — its mechanisms, rationales, and...