The Devil Problem and Other True Stories - Hardcover

Remnick, David

 
9780679452553: The Devil Problem and Other True Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679452559 ISBN 13: 9780679452553
Verlag: Random House Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lenin's Tomb presents a collection of witty, insightful essays--many of which previously appeared in The New Yorker--on topics ranging from politics and politicians to opera and religion. 15,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Remnick is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and other publications. Mr. Remnick received a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his first book Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire. He was a reporter for The Washington Post for ten years, including four years as Moscow correspondent. A graduate of Princeton University, and former visiting fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Remnick lives in New York with his wife and two sons.

Aus dem Klappentext

from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat.

Remnick's portraits of such disparate characters as Alger Hiss and Ralph Ellison, Richard Nixon and Elaine Pagels, Gerry Adams and Marion Barry are unified by this extraordinary ability to create a living character, so that the pieces in this book, taken together, constitute a splendid pageant of the representative characters of our time.

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Verlag
Random House Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679452559
ISBN 13 
9780679452553
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
404
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