Salvador (book)

Salvador is a 1983 nonfiction book by Joan Didion on American involvement in the Salvadoran Civil War.^[1] Most of the book is based on three extended essays Didion published in The New York Review of Books in November and December 1982.^[2][3] She spent two weeks in El Salvador in June 1982 and referred to the experience as "terrifying."^[4] Didion was in the country during the 1982 earthquake.^[5]

Salvador

First US edition
Author	Joan Didion
Cover artist	Lawrence Ratzkin
Language	English
Genre	Essays
Publisher	Simon & Schuster (US) Chatto & Windus (UK) Lester & Orpen Dennys (Canada)
Publication date	1983
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	108 pp
ISBN	0-671-47024-8 (UK/US) ISBN 0-88619-015-0 (Canada)
OCLC	29389494
Dewey Decimal	972.8405/2 20
LC Class	F1488.3 .D53 1994