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Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0684868105
ISBN-13: 9780684868103
Mar 2000
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
350 pages
Illustrated
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Lawrence Wright's surprisingly sympathetic comic novel about the dictator Manuel Noriega of Panama begins in 1989, when the revolutionary leader Dr. Hugo Spadafora is assassinated--an event that triggers the downfall of Noriega four years later. "My character, Tony Noriega, is a creature of my imagination," Wright says. "Although his actions are structured upon the facts of General Noriega's life, as I understand them, my goal in this book is to create a personality who lives plausibly within these pages."
| Size | | Length: | 350 pages | | Height: | 10.0 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "For twenty minutes the policeman sat with the villagers watching the golden frog."
Industry Reviews
"[A] vigorous full-dress satiric farce that neatly skewers the self-righteous mendacity of all the Americas, ours very much included. The wittiest political novel we've seen in some time...."
Bernstein
"Faced with his own stranger-than-life autocrat, Wright has foregone narrative experiments for a black comedy that is not very funny and a plot that hurtles forward toward the predictable denouement....The result is a novel that often reads more like a screenplay...and dialogue that sometimes sounds too much like a spaghetti western."
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