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Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.
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Grave, prestige, bleak and character-led.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Joan Didion
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 214
- Publisher
- Bantam, Bantam Books, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9786073155380
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“WHAT MAKES IAGO EVIL?”
Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation. - Wikipedia
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