Salvador by Joan Didion

Salvador

Joan Didion

112 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction essays history politics reflective slow-paced

Description

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. The writer is Joan Didion, who delivers an anatomy of that country's particular brand of terror–its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate ...

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informative 85%
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tense 50%
reflective 40%
challenging 25%
adventurous 15%
emotional 5%
sad 5%

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medium 18%

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