Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe
From award-winning, bestselling author Patrick Radden Keefe, a collection of his phenomenal essays published in the New Yorker, ranging from forgery to reality TV.
Eminently bingeable, religiously fact-checked and seductively globetrotting. . A preternaturally attentive reporter at work. * Observer *
A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours . . . Highly entertaining’ * Los Angeles Times *
Keefe follows his award-winning opus with a collection of 12 pen portraits . . . that are no less compelling for being sketched on a smaller canvas. * Financial Times ‘Best Summer Books of 2022’ *
Reflects the collective preoccupations of the unsettling era in which we now live: mass shootings and terrorism, mental health issues, and the many flavors of financial corruption . . . Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how these crimes unfolded. * Washington Post *
Each [piece] could be a book in its own right . . . [Keefe] has an eye for the smallest detail that reveals something big. * Sunday Times *
A wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people. * National Public Radio *
Extraordinary * Wall Street Journal *
One of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation * Toronto Star *
A king of contemporary nonfiction * Entertainment Weekly *
Iconic . . . Keefe delivers masterpieces * Oprah Daily *
I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he’s a national treasure. -- Rachel Maddow
A new book by Keefe means drop everything and close the blinds; you’ll be turning pages for hours . . . Highly entertaining’ * Los Angeles Times *
Keefe follows his award-winning opus with a collection of 12 pen portraits . . . that are no less compelling for being sketched on a smaller canvas. * Financial Times ‘Best Summer Books of 2022’ *
Reflects the collective preoccupations of the unsettling era in which we now live: mass shootings and terrorism, mental health issues, and the many flavors of financial corruption . . . Keefe is a virtuoso storyteller, able to create suspense with his descriptions of how these crimes unfolded. * Washington Post *
Each [piece] could be a book in its own right . . . [Keefe] has an eye for the smallest detail that reveals something big. * Sunday Times *
A wonderful book, not only because Keefe's prose is masterful, but because he has a preternatural gift for reading people. * National Public Radio *
Extraordinary * Wall Street Journal *
One of the finest non-fiction writers of his generation * Toronto Star *
A king of contemporary nonfiction * Entertainment Weekly *
Iconic . . . Keefe delivers masterpieces * Oprah Daily *
I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he’s a national treasure. -- Rachel Maddow
Patrick Radden Keefe is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of the bestsellers Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction), Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks (a collection of his New Yorker stories) and Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (named one of the 20 Best Books of the 21st Century by the New York Times and now streaming as a limited series on Disney+), as well as two previous critically acclaimed books, The Snakehead and Chatter. He is the writer and host of the eight-part podcast Wind of Change, which The Guardian named the #1 podcast of 2020, and the recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. He lives in New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781035001767 |
| ISBN 10 | 1035001764 |
| Title | Rogues |
| Author | Patrick Radden Keefe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2023-07-13 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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