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Book (regular print)
Title:
In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
Other title(s):
Life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin
ISBN:
9780374175597
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Physical Description:
xviii, 378 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published in 2018 by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain--Title page verso.
Contents:
Part I. America. Dead man's branch ; Father and daughter ; Lovers and mentors -- Part II. Middle East. The path of death ; In a man's world ; War, peace, and love -- Part III. The world beyond. We're gonna make you a star ; Leap before you look ; The face in the mirror -- Part IV. London. All at sea ; A reckless tide ; Baba Amr.
Summary:
A biography of the war correspondent Marie Colvin.

"When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspondent who covered the most significant global calamities of her lifetime. In Extremis, written by her fellow reporter Lindsey Hilsum, is a thrilling investigation into Colvin's epic life and tragic death based on exclusive access to her intimate diaries from age thirteen to her death, interviews with people from every corner of her life, and impeccable research. After growing up in a middle-class Catholic family on Long Island, Colvin studied with the legendary journalist John Hersey at Yale, and eventually started working for The Sunday Times of London, where she gained a reputation for bravery and compassion as she told the stories of victims of the major conflicts of our time. She lost sight in one eye while in Sri Lanka covering the civil war, interviewed Gaddafi and Arafat many times, and repeatedly risked her life covering conflicts in Chechnya, East Timor, Kosovo, and the Middle East. Colvin lived her personal life in extremis, too: bold, driven, and complex, she was married twice, took many lovers, drank and smoked, and rejected society's expectations for women. Despite PTSD, she refused to give up reporting. Like her hero Martha Gellhorn, Colvin was committed to bearing witness to the horrifying truths of war, and to shining a light on the profound suffering of ordinary people caught in the midst of conflict. Lindsey Hilsum's [book] is a devastating and revelatory biography of one of the greatest war correspondents of her generation."--Jacket.
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