Introduction : to shift the structure of a sentence -- Language and the mechanism of terror : Salvador -- Preferred narratives : New York City after the Central Park jogger -- Lifting the curtain : the rhetoric of politics -- Terra Incognita : on loss and memory -- Conclusion : what remains.
Summary:
"The only book to offer an extended treatment of Joan Didion's nonfiction writing, and the first to offer extended analysis of her prose style"-- Provided by publisher.
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