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
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated into English from the original Spanish. |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2011
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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| 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 |
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| 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.) |