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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Title
- My Life in CIA (American Literature Series): A Chronicle of 1973
- ISBN
- 9781564783929
- Book Title
- My Life in Cia : a Chronicle of 1973
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Thrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General
- Item Weight
- 10.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 203 Pages
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-10
1564783928
ISBN-13
9781564783929
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44181182
Product Key Features
Book Title
My Life in Cia : a Chronicle of 1973
Number of Pages
203 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Thrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-063478
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
This is an honest account by someone (he seems at the time to have been a bit of a ne'er-do-well) who tried to play spy without knowing what the word meant and landed himself in boiling-hot water. The book, which is as exciting as any novel, proves a useful moral: leave this business to the pros., "It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities."--Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic, "So what you have at the end of the day is a book that's easy to like, an unusual pleasure: an American expatriate spy fantasy, and a very entertaining novel. Of course it is a novel. Right?" -- New York Times, "So what you have at the end of the day is a book that's easy to like, an unusual pleasure: an American expatriate spy fantasy, and a very entertaining novel. Of course it is a novel. Right?"--New York Times, "It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities."-Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic, "Harry Mathews is the only American author I know whose utter originality does not erode his heart and his content." -- Ned Rorem "One of the most remarkable prose stylists presently writing in English." -- San Francisco Chronicle "It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities." -- Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
In the early 1970s, Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent--and so he decided to act the part. Part spellbinding thriller, part gag, this memoir documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during the coup in Chile, Watergate, and the close of the Vietnam War, when various foreign agencies decided he would have to be liquidated...., "It's outrageous that an educated man and a gifted writer like Mr. Mathews could make such a public confession of such shameful activities."--Q. Kuhlmann, author of The Eye of Anguish: Subversive Activity in the German Democratic Republic, Through a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his inability to make anyone believe him, Mathews decided to act the part. My Life in CIA documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973, where amid charged world events--the coup in Chile, Watergate, the ending of the Vietnam War--he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists as various foreign agencies decided he was a presence that should be eliminated. Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a spellbinding thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred., Through a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even his closest friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustrations at his inability to make anyone believe him, Mathews decided to act the part. My Life in CIA documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973, where amid charged word events--the coup in Chile, Watergate, the ending of the Vietnam War--he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists as various foreign agencies decided to make sure of him for their own dubious purposes. Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a spellbinding thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred., Through a series of improbable coincidences, in the early 1970s Harry Mathews, then living in France, was commonly reputed to be a CIA agent. Even friends had their suspicions, which were only reinforced each time he tried to deny such a connection. With growing frustration at his inability to make anyone believe him, Mathews decided to act the part. My Life in CIA documents Mathews's experiences as a would-be spy during 1973, where amid charged world events-the coup in Chile, Watergate, the ending of the Vietnam War--he found himself engaged in a game that took sinister twists as various foreign agencies decided he was a presence that should be eliminated. Harry Mathews has turned these strange events into a spellbinding thriller where the line between fact and fiction gets relentlessly blurred.
LC Classification Number
PS3563.A8359M9 2005
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