My Holy War - Dispatches From the Home Front

What does America’s ‘war on terror’ and new era of religious and patriotic intensity look like to an Englishman living in Seattle?

About the author

Jonathan Raban was the author of over a dozen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including Passage to Juneau, Bad Land, Hunting Mister Heartbreak, Coasting, Old Glory, Arabia, Soft City, Waxwings and Surveillance. Over the span of six decades, he won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s Heinemann Award, the Thomas Cook Award, the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, and the Governor’s Award of the State of Washington. His work appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, The New York Review of Books, Outside, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other magazines.

In 1990 Raban, a British citizen, moved from London to Seattle, where he lived with his daughter until his death in 2023.

Summary

What does America’s ‘war on terror’ and new era of religious and patriotic intensity look like to an Englishman living in Seattle?

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Raban, Raban Jonathan
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.01.2012
• EAN: 9781447219415
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-1941-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, United States of America, USA, Iraq, Warfare and defence, Biography and non-fiction prose, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism, Political Ideologies / Radicalism