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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 108 pages. El Salvador, 1982, is at the height of a ghastly civil war. Joan Didion travels from battlefields to body dumps, interviews a puppet president, considers the distinctly Salvadorean meaning of the verb 'to disappear' and trains a merciless eye not only on the terror there but also on the depredations and evasions of US foreign policy. Salvador is a restless and unflinching masterclass in the art of reportage by one of the great literary stylists of the twentieth century. 'It is quite impossible to deny the artistic brilliance of her reportage. [Didion] brings El Salvador to life so that it ends up invading our flesh.' (SL#84). Seller Inventory # SL10489