Touchstones : essays on literature, art, and politics /

Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. --from publisher description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-
Other Authors: King, John, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated into English from the original Spanish.
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
Edition:1st American ed.
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Description
Summary:Touchstones collects Vargas Llosa's readings of seminal twentieth-century novels, from Heart of Darkness to The Tin Drum; incisive essays on political and social thinkers; and contemporary pieces on 9/11 and the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq. --from publisher description
Item Description:Originally published: London : Faber and Faber, 2007.
"This volume includes the eight central articles from the Iraq Diary."--p. xxviii.
Physical Description:xxxii, 354 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780374278373 (pbk.)
0374278377 (pbk.)