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...classic story. The demure small-town librarian swept off her feet by the handsome prince - a story with its roots in Cinderella ... and also, in this case, in the rather unbelievable recent history of our country. The librarian is smart and attractive but almost catatonic with guilt: her carelessness behind the wheel once caused the death of a good friend. The prince is charming, as advertised, but also carefree in a way that the librarian envies and mistrusts. He adores her, without question. She succumbs, with reservations. In Curtis Sittenfeld's brilliant novel American Wife, their names are Alice Lindgren...
Sittenfeld boldly skips over the politics that lands Charlie Blackwell in the White House. It is "the part that everybody knows," Alice says, picking up the narrative in the seventh year of the Blackwell presidency. It all seems a whirlwind to Alice, in any case, a tornado spinning too fast to be comprehensible - Charlie for President? Charlie as President? Charlie as the ultimate arbiter of war and peace? Indeed, Alice belatedly finds herself facing a moral dilemma: Was it possible that the disaster of Charlie's presidency - the war, the thousands dead - was her fault, just as the long...
...understand that plot is very important to you; you have literary concerns but you also want to keep people turning the pages. And that happens in American Wife. But in this case, unlike your earlier novels, many of the elements of the plot came to you ready-made. Did that affect the way you worked...
...Good news! McCain's campaign reassured supporters that the candidate knew everything about Palin in advance of his surprise decision to add her to the ticket. Just in case, though, according to ABC and NBC News, Republicans are sending a team of lawyers to Alaska to get a handle on Palin outbreaks...
...Sunday Telegraph raised the possibility that Foster's debts might also have made him an assassination target for shady business associates. It reported that last year Foster was involved in a court case in which he accused two men of blackmail after a land deal in Cyprus fell through. The defendants accused Foster of making up the allegation to cover up an attempt to have the pair assaulted...