Even without the obvious reflection on public personages we all know, Klein is adept at keeping the readers' attention, and at times the novel is simply mesmerizing. Klein follows "Primary Colors" with the just-released "The Running Mate," a morality tale that continues to hold a magnifying glass to American politics while at the same time offering lessons on love, honor, family and community. What was almost lost in the brouhaha over the clamor about who wrote the book was the fact that the novel, in addition to dishing the dirt on the Clintons, was also an extremely well-written and absorbing tale of politics as it was played in the waning years of 20th century America. The novel was a thinly disguised roman a clef of the Clinton campaign for the White House, and the author was listed as "Anonymous."Īfter first denying rumors that he was the author, New Yorker magazine Washington correspondent Joe Klein came clean. 23 - You probably remember the cat-and-mouse game that accompanied the release of "Primary Colors," one of the most talked-about political novels in recent years. Campaign novel follows the fortunes of a fictional U.S.
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When she receives a phone call telling her that her son’s former girlfriend Denise, a woman she has never met, has been shot in the leg and is in hospital, Willa impulsively flies to Baltimore. Willa has no interest in golf and sits alone in an unfamiliar home while Peter tries to improve his handicap. Part two of the novel begins with Willa, now sixty-one, reluctantly living in the golfing haven to which her second husband, Peter, has chosen to retire. Many years later, moving to Arizona, she is attracted to the giant saguaro cacti that loom over the landscape: ‘She loved their dignity, their endurance.’ This admiration seems emblematic of Willa’s aspirations for herself. Willa has grown up with a volatile, angry mother and a soft-spoken, passive father. Tyler reminds us, through these carefully scripted scenes, of the lasting influence of childhood experience. Willa’s response to each crisis is to play safe, opting for polite accommodation. When she is forty-one, her husband instigates a road-rage incident. When she is twenty-one, Willa accepts a proposal of marriage, although she has not yet finished college. When she is eleven, her mother disappears for two days. Willa’s history and personality are revealed in the first part of the novel through three incidents that occur during a thirty-year period. Anne Tyler’s Clock Dance tells the story of Willa Drake and her last-ditch attempt to choose her own life. Loree and her husband split their time between a home in the Baltimore suburbs and a cabin in the Allegheny Mountains, where she continues to hone her "identify the critter tracks" skills. But mostly, she just writes (and writes). Though she refuses to share the actual year when she traded her Yamaha 6-string for a wedding ring, she IS willing to admit that, every now and then, she blows the dust off her six-string to croon a tune or two. 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