The Devil Problem - And Other True Stories (Paperback, Vintage ed.)

Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift for character is sharper than ever, whether he writes about Gary Hart stumbling through life after Donna Rice or Mario Cuomo, who now presides over a Saturday morning radio talk show, fielding questions from crackpots, or about Michael Jordan's awesome return to the Chicago Bulls -- or Reggie Jackson's last times at bat.
Remnick's portraits of such disparate characters as Alger Hiss and Ralph Ellison, Richard Nixon and Elaine Pagels, Gerry Adams and Marion Barry are unified by this extraordinary ability to create a living character, so that the pieces in this book, taken together, constitute a splendid pageant of the representative characters of our time.

General

Imprint:	Vintage Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1997
First published:	September 1997
Authors:	David Remnick
Dimensions:	217 x 139 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	448
Edition:	Vintage ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-679-77752-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-679-77752-0
Barcode:	9780679777526

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