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Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban’s most recent books are the essay collection My Holy War and the novel Surveillance.

From the London Review dated 9 October 2008

Cut, Kill, Dig, Drill

Sarah Palin has put a new face and voice to the long-standing, powerful, but inchoate movement in US political life that one might see as a mutant strain of Poujadism, inflected with a modern American accent. There are echoes of the Poujadist agenda of 1950s France in its contempt for metropolitan elites, fuelling the resentment of the provinces towards the capital and the countryside towards the city, in its xenophobic strain of nationalism, sturdy, paysan resistance to taxation, hostility to big business, and conviction that politicians are out to exploit the common man.

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Selected bibliography

  • Surveillance (2006)  Buy this book
  • My Holy War: Dispatches from the Home Front (2006)
  • Waxwings (2003)
  • Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (1999)
  • Bad Land: An American Romance (1996)
  • The Oxford Book of the Sea (editor) (1992)
  • Hunting Mr. Heartbreak (1990)
  • God, Man and Mrs. Thatcher (1989)
  • For Love and Money (1987)
  • Coasting (1986)  Buy this book
  • Foreign Land (1985)
  • Arabia Through the Looking Glass (1979)
  • Soft City (1974)
  • Society of the Poem (1971)
  • The Technique of Modern Fiction (1968)

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