Gloria Emerson (1929–2004)
Autore di Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from a Long War
Sull'Autore
Opere di Gloria Emerson
Opere correlate
War torn: stories of war from the women reporters who covered Vietnam (2002) — Introduzione — 88 copie
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Collaboratore — 86 copie
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Epilogue — 40 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1929-05-19
- Data di morte
- 2004-08-03
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Princeton, New Jersey, USA - Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Relazioni
- Brofferio, Charles (husband, 1960-61)
- Organizzazioni
- The New York Times
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- National Book Award (1978)
George Polk Award
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 239
- Popolarità
- #94,925
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 16
- Lingue
- 1
Some quotes:
On Hell:
"It's not a place, is it? We carry it with us, a hell that separates us from all that is kind and good and generous." [p. 111]
On God:
"Remember what Pascal said, that a man who starts looking for God has already found him." [p. 117]
On helping others:
"It is to help a family." From the pocket of her skirt she handed him a wad of dinars, held together by a rubber band, which she did not count On one side of the bills was an antelope with mountains in the distance. There was a moral simplicity about this small act that her grander schemes always lost. [p. 125]
... a government communique with recommendations on security issues: "Banalize and minimize the psychological effect of terrorist and subversive actions. Play up atrocities committed by the Islamic regimes of Iran, Sudan and Afganistan." [p. 139]
"Oh yes, but it wasn't she who suffered, was it?" said Toby. "People like her never do. They just take a stand while the bullets hit someone else." [p. 173]
Molly had seen he absurdity of her life before, that was nothing new, but now there was no reason to ever believe in her own usefulness again, and it was this pretense which she so needed. [p. 174]… (altro)