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The Devil Problem And Other True Stories
by Remnick, David
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Readers know 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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Product Details
- Knopf Doubleday Publishin Brand
- Sep 30, 1997 Pub Date:
- 9780679777526 ISBN-13:
- 0679777520 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 0.94 in * 5.51 in * 8.5 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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