Hanoi (Record no. 222561)

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Transcribing agency Aloy
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 915.97
Item number MCCH
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Personal name Mary McCarthy
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9 (RLIN) 30945
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Hanoi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Great Britain
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1969
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 159 p.
Other physical details PB
Dimensions 18x11 cm
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Source of price type code Travel
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Mary McCarthy went to North Vietnam for two-&-a-half weeks in March to report, &, like Harrison Salisbury, to reveal & verify; she saw the manhole shelters in the sidewalk (tho no one acknowledged using them, preferring communal facilities), a remote Catholic hamlet in ruins, victims of zigzag pellets from cluster bombs; she saw everywhere determination to endure the shelters, the prominence given to growth statistics, the dispersal of schools, hospitals, plants; she saw moreover a return to 1st principles (folk medicine, bamboo); she saw, in substance, what she expected to see. Except in herself; the scrupulous observer was working at her own salvation, trying to assuage her discomfiture with the war but in assuming the role of witness, & implicitly of judge, she had found a further discomfiture--the North Vietnamese value formulation, both guileless & jargon-ridden. (A fascinating interview with Prime Minister Pham Ban Dong substantiates the determination to preserve Vietnamese traditions & the traditions of socialism.) McCarthy has, as always, a sharp eye for the tangible, an astute awareness of the nuances of speech, a wide field of historic referral; she has also, here, no comfort for those who take comfort in certitudes.--Kirkus
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Travel
9 (RLIN) 30938
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Topical term or geographic name entry element North Vietnamese Bucolic
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Personal name McCARTHY (Mary)
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type George Fernandes Collections
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Others St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   915.97 MCCH GF02252 04/22/2022 04/22/2022 George Fernandes Collections