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Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
Siobhan Darrow
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Description for Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
Paperback.
Born in Belfast, Siobhan Darrow grew up in New Jersey in a home that was split between her proper Ulster mother and her Jewish father. Emotional strife and poverty were a way of life. After her father died Siobhan travelled to Russia to learn more about the man she could never know while alive. Quite unexpectedly, she married a Russian and became what she called a Cold War bride. He got a passport out - after 7 years of waiting - and she got a rare chance to live among ordinary Soviets in the days before the fall of communism. ... Read more
Born in Belfast, Siobhan Darrow grew up in New Jersey in a home that was split between her proper Ulster mother and her Jewish father. Emotional strife and poverty were a way of life. After her father died Siobhan travelled to Russia to learn more about the man she could never know while alive. Quite unexpectedly, she married a Russian and became what she called a Cold War bride. He got a passport out - after 7 years of waiting - and she got a rare chance to live among ordinary Soviets in the days before the fall of communism. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Number of pages
180
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781860498169
SKU
KNW0010412
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Siobhan Darrow
Siobhan Darrow has worked for CNN for nearly 15 years, serving as a correspondent in Russia, Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Chechnya and Albania. Fluent in Russian, she lived for seven years in Moscow. She now lives and works in Los Angeles. This is her first book.
Reviews for Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter
'Rather than adding to the heroic accounts of flak-jacketed foreign correspondants in danger zones, FLIRTING WITH DANGER is an altogether more candid account of what really preoccupies the war reporter on assignment. Siobhan Darrow tells her story- in fact, the very many stories- with an eye for telling details, with a relish for the absurd and, time and again, with ... Read more