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What I Heard About Iraq
Eliot Weinberger
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Description for What I Heard About Iraq
Paperback. In an extraordinary montage of facts, sound-bites and testimonies, Weinberger assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative which permits the voices of war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists and the apologists to damn themselves in their own words. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 8. Weight in Grams: 110.
The Iraq War has unleashed such a torrent of opinion - impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism - that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rehtoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative, which permits the voices of the war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists to damn themselves in their own words.
This pocket-sized volume is vast in scope, a work unlike any other you have read on Iraq, which finds ... Read more
The Iraq War has unleashed such a torrent of opinion - impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism - that it feels like the important truths are being lost in a media feeding-frenzy. Eliot Weinberger eschews the rehtoric of the soapbox in an extraordinary montage of facts, sound bites and testimonies. He assembles an uncompromising and blackly comic narrative, which permits the voices of the war to speak for themselves, and allows the protagonists to damn themselves in their own words.
This pocket-sized volume is vast in scope, a work unlike any other you have read on Iraq, which finds ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844670369
SKU
V9781844670369
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About Eliot Weinberger
Eliot Weinberger is an essayist and translator. His recent works include the National Book Critics Circle-nominated What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles; What I Heard About Iraq; and most recently, The Ghost of Birds and with Octavio Paz 11 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei He won The National Book Critics award for criticism for his translations of Borges. And ... Read more
Reviews for What I Heard About Iraq
What I Heard About Iraq lays bare the false pieties and covert rapacity of the war and occupation. The result is something very special indeed.
Hanif Kureishi Although Eliot Weinberger was a few blocks away from the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, his has been a rare voice of sanity on the subject ever since. Here he ... Read more
Hanif Kureishi Although Eliot Weinberger was a few blocks away from the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, his has been a rare voice of sanity on the subject ever since. Here he ... Read more