As Cuban rebels clash with occupying Spanish troops during the Spanish-American War, two American journalists risk their lives to save a beautiful revolutionary known as the "Joan of Arc of Cuba."
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In his sixth novel, Lynch ( Deathly Pale ) interweaves the reminiscences of Hearst newspaperman Ambrose Bierce, lying near death in a Mexican hut in 1914, with a tale told to the journalist by a "fellow Hearstling," artist Frederic Remington, in 1909. The main story concerns Remington's adventures with legendary reporter Richard Harding Davis, on assignment in Cuba before and during the Spanish-American War of 1898. The action-packed plot, which climaxes with the pair's rescue of Cuban revolutionary Evangelina Cosio y Cisneros (a historical event), is enriched by a behind-the-scenes look at the operations of the "yellow" press and the rivalry between the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers in New York City. Lynch does a fine job of keeping fiction and history distinct yet making them complement each other; his narrative vividly evokes the robust tenor of life in an age when America's emergence as a world power often made its press arrogant and mendacious. His strong characterizations capture the world-weariness of men who have seen the truth swamped by a great wave of misinformation.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Ambrose Bierce, American writer and erstwhile "yellow" journalist, lies on his deathbed in Mexico and narrates a story of the Cuban insurrection (as once told to him by the artist Frederic Remington) to a prostitute. Only tenuously based on fact, this novel recounts how Remington and another journalist entered the strife-torn Spanish colony in 1897 and eventually liberated an imprisoned woman whom the New York Journal dubbed the "Joan of Arc of Cuba." The author's creative conjecture as to how Bierce met his end after he disappeared in Mexico in 1913 is interwoven with this fictional account of how "yellow journalism" swayed American opinion toward war with Spain. Unlike Lynch's earlier family saga, Bad Fortune ( LJ 11/15/88), Yellow is not lacking in character development . Recommended for public libraries.
- Robert Jordan, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Robert Jordan, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Refreshing, well-told historical tale,
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This review is from: Yellow (Hardcover)
1998 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Maine and the Spanish-American War, instigated, many still say, by William Randolph Hearst. "Yellow" (for yellow journalism) recounts the period leading to the Maine's sinking through the first-person fictional account of Ambrose Bierce, the legendary American artist and writer, as he traveled to Cuba on Hearst's payroll. Fascinating for fans of true Americana. Lynch is a gifted storyteller.
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