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The Room and the Chair
Lorraine Adams
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Description for The Room and the Chair
Paperback. An energetic and compelling novel that takes us on a corkscrew journey from Washington to Bagram to reveal some dark truths about how a superpower's agents and newspapers work Num Pages: 336 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington, DC. But noone seems to have noticed. Well, almost noone ... At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can blind. In Washington's other power centre, Will queasily watches videos of a beheading from Falluja while lamenting the loss of his best double-agent, eliminated by the Iranian authorities whose nuclear intentions he was reporting. But that agent, Hoseyn, might yet provide the missing pieces that will permit the jigsaw to be completed from beyond his ... Read more
A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington, DC. But noone seems to have noticed. Well, almost noone ... At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can blind. In Washington's other power centre, Will queasily watches videos of a beheading from Falluja while lamenting the loss of his best double-agent, eliminated by the Iranian authorities whose nuclear intentions he was reporting. But that agent, Hoseyn, might yet provide the missing pieces that will permit the jigsaw to be completed from beyond his ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846272387
SKU
V9781846272387
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About Lorraine Adams
LORRAINE ADAMS was educated at Princeton and at Columbia University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a staff writer for the Washington Post for eleven years. She lives in NYC, and Harbor (Portobello, 2006) was her first novel.
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