Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a Reluctant War Reporter

Darrow, Siobhan

ISBN 10: 1860498167 / ISBN 13: 9781860498169

Published by Virago Press Ltd, 2000

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Synopsis:

Born in Belfast, Siobhan Darrow grew up in New Jersey in a home that was split between her proper Ulster mother and her Jewish father. Emotional strife and poverty were a way of life. After her father died, Siobhan travelled to Russia to learn more about the man she could never know while alive. Quite unexpectedly, she married a Russian and became what she called a Cold War bride. He got a passport out - after seven years of waiting - and she got a rare chance to live among ordinary Soviets in the days before the fall of communism.

From the Back Cover: “Move over Murrow and Amanpour. If you want the real dish about the life and attempted loves of a war reporter, then read Flirting With Danger.”–Henry Shuster, Senior Producer, CNN

“Siobhan Darrow tells her story...with an eye for the telling details, with a relish for the absurd and, time and again, with disarming honesty.”–The Financial Times

“With quiet courage and poignant candor, Siobhan Darrow rips off her TV mask and shows us her soul: confused, curious, at war with itself, brimming with love, and desperately human.” –Deborah Copaken Kogan, author of Shutterbabe

“Rather than adding to the heroic accounts of flak-jacketed foreign correspondents in danger zones, Flirting with Danger is an altogether more candid account of what really preoccupies the war reporter on assignment. Siobhan Darrow tells her story . . . with an eye for the telling details, with a relish for the absurd and, time and again, with disarming honesty.” –The Financial Times

“The more you read of Flirting with Danger, the more you put the book down and exclaim: Is this woman Bridget Jones in a flak-jacket and fatigues?” –The Scotsman

“The bravest part of Flirting with Danger is not in fact the chilling accounts of front lines and shell-dodging for interviews. It’s Darrow’s willingness to admit that much of the time she had love on the brain.” –Los Angeles Times

Bibliographic Details

Title: Flirting with Danger: Confessions of a ...
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good