EAN: 9780679754855

DEMOCRACY - JOAN DIDION TASCHENBUCH

Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people
around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the
failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to
forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And  in 1975  the year in which much of this bitterly
funny novel is set  America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client  the
lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam.As conceived by Joan Didion  these personages
and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy  a fallout that also includes
fact-finding junkets  senatorial groupies  the international arms market  and the Orwellian
newspeak of the political class. Moving deftly from Honolulu to Jakarta  between romance  farce
and tragedy  Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with
a single phrase.

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