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- ISBN
- 9781101973127
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1101973129
ISBN-13
9781101973127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219098825
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (The Taliban Shuffle Mti) : Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Subject
Asia / Central Asia, Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Personal Memoirs, Military / Afghan War (2001-), Journalism, Asia / India & South Asia, Form / Essays
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-301957
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Remarkable. . . . [Barker] has written an account of her experiences covering Afghanistan and Pakistan that manages to be hilarious and harrowing, witty and illuminating, all at the same time." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times " The Taliban Shuffle isn''t like any other book out there about Afghanistan and Pakistan. It''s witty, brilliant, and impossible to put down." --Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City " The Taliban Shuffle is part war memoir, part tale of self-discovery that, thanks to Barker''s biting honesty and wry wit, manages to be both hilarious and heartbreaking." -- Chicago Tribune "What you''d hear if the reporter never turned off the voice recorder between interviews--brilliant firsthand outtakes that wind up telling us more about the Afghan debacle than any foreign policy briefing." -- The Seattle Times "At once funny and harrowing, insightful and appalling. . . . The Taliban Shuffle will pull you in so deep that you''ll smell the poppies and quake from the bombs." -- The Minneapolis Star Tribune "If you''re looking for a window on the challenges facing Afghanistan and Pakistan today--from a resurgent Taliban to American incompetence to Afghan and Pakistani corruption and nepotism--Barker provides a sterling vantage point." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Kim Barker gives a true and amusing picture of hellholes and the reporters on assignment in them. But she breaks the journo code of silence and reveals a trade secret of the hacks who cover hellholes: The hell of the holes is that they''re kind of fun." --P. J. O''Rourke " The Taliban Shuffle gives us an insider''s perspective of Afghanistan and Pakistan--their fascinating cultures, unstable governments, and burgeoning terrorist groups. . . . With dark, self-deprecating humor and shrewd insight, Barker chronicles her experiences as a rookie foreign reporter and the critical years when the Taliban resurged amidst the collapse of the Afghan and Pakistani governments." -- The Daily Beast "Politically astute and clearly influenced by Hunter S. Thompson, Barker provides sharp commentary on the impotence of American foreign policy in South Asia after the victory against the Taliban. . . . Fierce, funny and unflinchingly honest." -- Kirkus Reviews "Reveals many enduring truths. . . . Novel both for its humor and for its perspective . . . it rises (or sinks) to levels of seriousness that will be remembered long after the po-faced analysis of other writers has been forgotten." -- The National "Brilliant, tender, and unexpectedly hilarious." --Marie Claire "Candid and darkly comic. . . . With self-deprecation and a keen eye for the absurd, Barker describes her evolution from a green, fill-in correspondent to an adrenaline junkie." -- Publisher''s Weekly " The Taliban Shuffle is Scoop meets Dispatches , remixed with a twenty-first-century Bollywood soundtrack. Laugh-out-loud funny, it is the true story of what it is like to be a female journalist in one of the world''s most exotic war zones, while telling the reader much about what is really going on today in Afghanistan and Pakistan." --Peter Bergen, author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda "[An] immensely entertaining memoir." -- The Boston Globe "Yes, there are bombs. And there is carnage. And all sorts of mayhem. But mostly there are people, human beings even, with appetites--for life, for adventure, for riches, for love. Ms. Barker offers this world--the human world caught in the crosshairs of history--with a vitality rarely seen in accounts of the war. A compelling read that offers readers a glimpse of the goings-on behind the byline." --J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
958.1047
Edition Description
Media tie-in
Synopsis
Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton. From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the "dry" city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir. As Barker grows from awkward newbie to seasoned reporter, she offers an insider's account of the region's "forgotten war" at a time when all eyes were turned to Iraq. Candid, self-deprecating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Barker shares both her affection for the absurdities of these two hapless countries and her fear for their future stability.
LC Classification Number
DS371.4135B37 2016
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