The Last Thing He Wanted (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Joan Reese
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Journalism or journalists, Parents and children, Politics, Alienation, Fathers, Elections, Adventure, Conspiracies or conspirators
- Locales: Caribbean, United States, Costa Rica
The Last Thing He Wanted demands its readers’ attention, starting with its ambiguous title and continuing through its complexly zigzagging plot, narrated by someone who does not give her name but reveals enough about herself to suggest she is a fictionalized version of Didion, with an ear for jargon that lets her suggest the truth behind the pretense.
The time of the main events is the summer of 1984, a year that suggests a dystopian society comparable to but not identical with the one in George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The narrator, a journalist...
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