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Sam Quinones

    Sam Quinones est un journaliste et auteur réputé pour ses œuvres de non-fiction narrative. Son écriture explore des problèmes sociaux complexes, les humanisant à travers des histoires méticuleusement recherchées et captivantes. Quinones possède une capacité remarquable à découvrir des récits inédits, des expériences des migrants à l'impact dévastateur de l'épidémie d'opiacés. Sa voix distinctive et son engagement profond envers la narration authentique offrent aux lecteurs des aperçus profonds sur le tissu de la société américaine.

    Dreamland
    The Least of Us
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair.

      The Least of Us2022
      4,4
    • "With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two tales of capitalism catastrophically run amok. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small towns and midsize cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico"--Back cover

      Dreamland2016
      4,3