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The Room and the Chair

The Room and the Chair

by Lorraine Adams (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

A jet aircraft falls straight out of the sky into an island park in the heart of Washington, DC. But noone seems to have noticed. Well, almost noone ... At the capital's paper, the staff are in a frenzy, and the news, and ambition, can blind. In Washington's other power centre, Will queasily watches videos of a beheading from Falluja while lamenting the loss of his best double-agent, eliminated by the Iranian authorities whose nuclear intentions he was reporting. But that agent, Hoseyn, might yet provide the missing pieces that will permit the jigsaw to be completed from beyond his own death ...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd
Published: 05 May 2011
ISBN 10: 1846272386
ISBN 13: 9781846272387
Book Overview: An energetic and compelling novel that takes us on a corkscrew journey from Washington to Bagram to reveal some dark truths about how a superpower's agents and newspapers work -this is a war novel, a reporter's novel and a spy thriller.

Media Reviews
Adams is a singular and important American writer. The Room and the Chair is remarkable for its ambitions and its achievements. . . . One of the triumphs of this book is that it's a war novel that's mostly about women. Though often unwitting tools and even more often thwarted, they are the fulcrum of the book, lifting what might otherwise be a dazzling thriller into the realm of literature. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Wonderful. . . . One of the most thrilling literary novels I've read in years. . . . Lorraine Adams seems to have it all--a journalist's sharp eye, a poet's ear, a cynic's wisdom and a story-teller's flourish. . . . . A tough, fast and beautiful read. --Colum McCann, National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin Spellbinding. . . . Fiercely intelligent. . . . A stunning portrayal of our uneasy days. . . . Sinuous and intricate
Author Bio
LORRAINE ADAMS was educated at Princeton and at Columbia University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a staff writer for the Washington Post for eleven years. She lives in NYC, and Harbor (Portobello, 2006) was her first novel.