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The Last Assignment: A Novel
by Erika Robuck
"Will today be the day I make the picture to end all wars? It’s a day of high color, saturated. The world looks like a poem. I feel both here and in a dream. On earth and in heaven."
I’ve been hooked by the idea of “War Journo Dames” ever since reading Kim Fay's Kate & Frida, so when I heard about The Last Assignment, I knew I had to learn about Dickey Chapelle!
This work of biographical fiction definitely has me wanting to know more of Dickey's story and I've already added two of the suggestions for further reading to my TBR.
The sense of place is incredibly vivid - from a Hungarian prison to revolutionary Cuba to the villages of Vietnam. What a life - certainly full of the horrors of war, but also filled with adventure, camaraderie, and love.
"I feel ready to again pick up my camera and find the places and the people in the world who need light. It’s my calling. I must use my gifts of curiosity, courage, and access to the inner light to go to the darkest places and expose what happens there. I used to think of myself as a girl reporter, then a war correspondent. Now, however, I see I have to serve as an interpreter of violence. Find it, expose it, name it, exorcise it. That is my task, and I’m ready for my next mission."
I’ve been hooked by the idea of “War Journo Dames” ever since reading Kim Fay's Kate & Frida, so when I heard about The Last Assignment, I knew I had to learn about Dickey Chapelle!
This work of biographical fiction definitely has me wanting to know more of Dickey's story and I've already added two of the suggestions for further reading to my TBR.
The sense of place is incredibly vivid - from a Hungarian prison to revolutionary Cuba to the villages of Vietnam. What a life - certainly full of the horrors of war, but also filled with adventure, camaraderie, and love.
"I feel ready to again pick up my camera and find the places and the people in the world who need light. It’s my calling. I must use my gifts of curiosity, courage, and access to the inner light to go to the darkest places and expose what happens there. I used to think of myself as a girl reporter, then a war correspondent. Now, however, I see I have to serve as an interpreter of violence. Find it, expose it, name it, exorcise it. That is my task, and I’m ready for my next mission."