Salvador (book)
1983 book by Joan Didion on the Salvadoran Civil War
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Salvador is a 1983 nonfiction book by Joan Didion on American involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War.[1] Most of the book is based on three extended essays Didion published in The New York Review of Books in November and December 1982.[2][3] She spent two weeks in El Salvador in June 1982 and referred to the experience as "terrifying."[4] Didion was in the country during the 1982 earthquake.[5]
First US edition | |
| Author | Joan Didion |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Lawrence Ratzkin |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Essays |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster (US) Chatto & Windus (UK) Lester & Orpen Dennys (Canada) |
Publication date | 1983 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 108 pp |
| ISBN | 0-671-47024-8 (UK/US) ISBN 0-88619-015-0 (Canada) |
| OCLC | 29389494 |
| 972.8405/2 20 | |
| LC Class | F1488.3 .D53 1994 |
