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A dark hyper-comedy set in London in the late 1990s during the last gasp ofthe newspaper wars just before the dot-com tidal wave--about two femalejournalists at opposite ends of their life and work who become locked in afierce tango of wills and whose lives are forever changed by their (not-so-)brief (head-on) encounter.At the novel's center--a legendary prize-winning war correspondent (called inher day "The Newsroom Dietrich" because of her luminescent beauty) now in hereighties, at the end of her career, who, over the decades, as the intrepidgolden girl of the press, has been on the front lines or in the foxholes ofevery major theater of war of the twentieth century (Madrid; Normandy;Buchenwald; Berlin; Algiers; Korea; Vietnam). She is recognized everywhere(she finds fame mortifying these days); lionized for her fearless, politicallyinformed, objective reporting; and now, though fragile and in an acceleratingdecline, her goddess-like beauty long gone, her style of writing--unbiasedreportage--obsolete in the age of New Journalism, is rediscovered with thereissue of her frontline journalism, and the about-to-be-published collectionof her Pulitzer Prize-winning dispatches. The other

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Author

McAfee, Annalena

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307957344

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction