- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Mar 24 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0297793187
- ISBN-13: 978-0297793182
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.3 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
PW reported that Didion's style, "while it suffers overload, will delight her readers as she swims in the mainstream of the growing run of 'Miami' books." She portrays today's Miami as a hotbed of conspiracy and endless meetings among wealthy Cuban-Americans plotting Castro's overthrow.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Though Didion dissects Floridas hot spot, the objective here, however, is not so much of a profile of the city as a political analysis of the Miami Cuban mind, observed LJs reviewer. By combining her novelists ear and journalists eye, Didion gives the reader a sense of the never-ending feeling of exile that is locked in the heart of every refugee. This remains a masterful polemic.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
"...the Waking Dream that is Miami",
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This review is from: Miami (Paperback)
I've got a bone to pick with Joan Didion, but first let me say that "Miami" is a simply brilliant piece of noir journalism that, in every paragraph, reflects a different aspect of "the Capital of Latin America." Odd that 1987 saw three major non-fiction Miami treatments, all differently motivated: David Rieff's "Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists and Refugees in the New America," T.D. Allman's "Miami: City of the Future," and Didion's book. Yeah, yeah, at the time, Miami was hot hot hot, Crockett and Tubbs were in the middle of their run, but...Iran-Contragate was also playing itself out, and Miami was an epicenter of Reagan-era, better-dead-than-Red, Contra War intrigue. Didion captures the period beautifully in suitably ominous, conspiratorial tones. She introduces us to a cast of chilling characters--no, wait: she means for us to UNDERSTAND her characters as the driven, chilling, formidable products of "el exilio" and "la lucha"--and leaves no doubt that these are serious men, men who "get things done," men capable of, well, anything.And my bone? Didion is a wonderful writer who cannot, however, resist long, convoluted, patience-trying Germanic sentences, frontloaded with the universe, embellishing adjective after adjective, wending their way down the page, forestalling all gratification, clarity, or meaning, until finally hitting us between the eyes with the final word-punchline, which invariably leads our eyes to course back up the page in an effort to reconstruct, to rediscover "just where were we going with this." Small price to pay for so delicious a book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hits the Nail on the Head,
By A Customer
This review is from: Miami (Paperback)
As a 23 year resident in Miami (from NYC) I was astonished at Didion's eloquent articulation of what I haven't been able to describe but have pondered over these many years--the cultural and cognitive disconnect between native Americans and disgruntled Cuban exiles. They talk about LA, but Miami really is Never-Never Land with impossibly obdurant and involuntary immigrants who have no clue or stake in the American values of reasoned discourse, free speech, and fair play and no desire to abandon the cultural attributes that have allowed them to suffer under one form of tyranny or another for a long long time. This books explains what they are thinking--the Cubans--and why they behave the way they do. Well-researched, accurate, and beautifully crafted prose.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A look at Cuban-American politics and society in exile.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Miami (Paperback)
Being a Cuban-American means growing up with politics as a big part of life. Being a Cuban-American in Miami means having a strong sense of Cuban identity based on "la lucha", or the struggle against the tyranny enveloping the island nation 90 miles away. Joan Didion provides a vivid account of the tumultuous and controversial world of Miami exile politics, as well as the often explosive issues of racial and ethnic conflict, where hispanic meets white, meets black, in this multi-ethnic, multi-racial kaleidoscope that is Miami.
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