My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front - Softcover

Raban, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447219414 ISBN 13: 9781447219415

Publisher: Picador, 2012

Synopsis

What does Americas war on terror and new era of religious and patriotic intensity look like to an Englishman living in Seattle

About this title

From the Publisher

"IF your library consisted of nothing but books whos subject is how America has responded to the attacks, your shelves would hold dozens, perhaps already even hundreds of volumes. This surfeit of musings raises the bar on any book that takes the post-9/11 world as its subject. Raban clears that bar...[He is] quite clear-eyed and precise about the nature, roots and dangers of Islamic fundamentalism...He understands the rituals not only of the extremist but also of the devout Muslim...Has it occured to any other post 9/11 belletrist to note the similarities between [Sayyid el Qtub] and T.S. Eliot? If that thought intrigues you even while angering you a little, you are a Jonathan Raban's kind of reader."--The Washington Post

About the Author

Jonathan Raban is 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. His awards include 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 has 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 now lives with his daughter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447219414
• ISBN 13: 9781447219415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210