Democracy
A Historical, Literature, Womens book. Some men (fewer women) are solitary, unattached to any particular place or institution, most comfortable not...
Joan Didion's new novel is a precise and pitiless exploration of lives lived in the harsh glare of public scrutiny, written with that unique Didion gift of capturing a whole world of human feelings with a single word or phrase.Yet Democracy is anything but spare. Its images are those of the tropics, where much of it takes place, a background of rich colors, of soft winds, of sensuality, the background against which a marriage collapses, a love affair begins and ends, a murder takes place.At the center of the novel is Inez Christian Victor, wife of a United States Senator who wants to be President of the United States, mother of children adrift in the persistent ebb of the '60s; the daughter of a privilege she no longer accepts, a woman whose life is held together by a liaison over a period of twenty years with a man named Jack Lovett, who moves in the shadow world of intelligence and...
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- Pages: 234 pages
- ISBN: 9780671419776 / 671419773
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Some men (fewer women) are solitary, unattached to any particular place or institution, most comfortable not exactly alone but in the presence of strangers. Joan Didion, Democracy //
As much as I am a fan of "Slouching Toward Bethlehem," I think that this is my favorite Joan Didion book. It presumes so much on the part of the reader -- that we already know about the intricacies of the characters' lives and the underbelly of the Vietnam War, and more so, that we care about any of it. In this book, Didion does not... This was a pleasant surprise, I went into it not expecting very much and found myself hooked by the very first words. The light at dawn during those Pacific tests was something to see.Something to behold.Something that could almost make you think you saw God, he said.He said to her.Jack Lovett said to Inez Victor.Joan Didion uses her... Na minha opinio as "heronas" da Joan Didion podem ser facilmente resumidas com uma quote de J.D.Salinger, da qual eu sou grande f.She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ringing continually ever since she had reached puberty.Quando penso na Inez Victor penso nessa quote, e...
