{"product_id":"salvador-isbn-9780679751830","title":"Salvador","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terror is the given of the place.\" The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion \"brings the country to life\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAs ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, Didion interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of  the verb \"to disappear.\" Here, the bestselling, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean \u003c\/i\u003egives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.\u003cp\u003e\"No one has interpreted the place better.... \u003ci\u003eSalvador \u003c\/i\u003eshines with enlightening observation,  and its language is lean and precise, in short what we have come to expect from Ms.  Didion.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Didion has] the instincts of an exceptional  reporter and the focus of a historian [as well as] a novelist's appreciation for  the surreal. . . .  Her clarity of style illuminates the vast darkness that engulfs  El Salvador.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Everything [Didion] writes grows out  of close observation of the social landscape of El Salvador. And it is quite impossible  to deny the artistic brilliance of her reportage. She brings the country to life  so that it ends up invading our flesh.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJOAN DIDION was born in Sacramento in 1934 and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1956. After graduation, Didion moved to New York and began working for \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, which led to her career as a journalist and writer. Didion published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eRun River\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1963. Didion’s other novels include \u003ci\u003eA Book of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), \u003ci\u003eDemocracy\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Thing He Wanted \u003c\/i\u003e(1996).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Didion’s first volume of essays, \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Bethlehem\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1968, and her second, \u003ci\u003eThe White Album\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1979. Her nonfiction works include \u003ci\u003eSalvador\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), \u003ci\u003eMiami\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eAfter Henry\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), \u003ci\u003ePolitical Fictions \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), \u003ci\u003eWhere I Was From \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), \u003ci\u003eWe Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live\u003c\/i\u003e (2006), \u003ci\u003eBlue Nights\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eSouth and West \u003c\/i\u003e(2017) and \u003ci\u003eLet Me Tell You What I Mean \u003c\/i\u003e(2021). Her memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2005. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In 2005, Didion was awarded the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters Gold Medal in Criticism and Belles Letters. In 2007, she was awarded the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A portion of National Book Foundation citation read: \"An incisive observer of American politics and culture for more than forty-five years, Didion’s distinctive blend of spare, elegant prose and fierce intelligence has earned her books a place in the canon of American literature as well as the admiration of generations of writers and journalists.” In 2013, she was awarded a National Medal of Arts and Humanities by President Barack Obama, and the PEN Center USA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDidion said of her writing: \"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” She died in December 2021.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303946572005,"sku":"NP9780679751830","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679751830.jpg?v=1767736068","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/salvador-isbn-9780679751830","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}