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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy

Roy is author of the Booker-winning The God of Small Things as well as a keen observer of the worldwide social and economic shakeup known as globalization. Here she sets aside her usual role as essayist and appears in four long conversations with Alternative Radio journalist Barsamian. The interview

Book Details

  • Publisher: South End Press
  • Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2004
  • Pages: 178
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.60in - 5.56in - 0.45in - 0.51lb
  • EAN: 9780896087101
  • Categories: International Relations - GeneralUnited States - 20th Century

About the Author

Arundhati Roy wowed critics with her writing debut, The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1998. She has also published several collections of essays The Cost of Living, Power Politics and most recently War Talk. Ms. Roy is an outspoken critic of India's nuclear weapons testing, controversial environmental issues and the US "war on terrorism."