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This intricate, fast-paced story, whose many scenes and details fit together like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, is Joan Didion’s incisive and chilling look at a modern world where things are not working as they should and where the oblique and the official language is as sinister as the events it is covering up."An impressive, fast-talking, hard-boiled, wise-cracking, tough-guy of a novel." - Mail On SundayThe narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for The Washington Post. She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in his business even though "she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing." It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined. "Fast-paced, witty, inventive... The Last Thing He Wanted is a creation of high seriousness, a thriller composed with all the resources of a unique gift for imaginative literature." - The New York Review of BooksInto this startling visio

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Author

DIDION, Joan

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679752851

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

True Crime, Fiction, Crime