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Michelle De Kretser's first novel, The Rose Grower, was set in revolutionary France; her second, The Hamilton Case, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award, in colonial Ceylon. With her latest, The Lost Dog, she visits contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India. The span of globetrotting mirrors de Kretser's own life. Born in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Australia as a teenager. De Kretser took her first degree in French at Melbourne University, then moved to Paris for her M.A. before returning to Australia where she worked, perhaps aptly, as a travel editor...
...just make out Palin's house a stone's throw from the public launch at the Best Western Hotel, by the red and white floatplane on the small dock out front (the governor's husband is a pilot in addition to being an oil worker, commercial fisherman, prior Iron Dog snowmobile endurance race winner, and self-anointed "First Dude...
...where I had grown up and was elected to two terms on the city council. And then I realized to be really able to make a difference - not just being one of six of a body but to make a difference - I would have to run for the top dog position, and so I ran for mayor and was elected mayor for two terms...
...that's brought with it kind of a whole new chapter in Alaska's life. Like my husband - up here they refer to him as the "first dude," not the first gentleman. And Todd... And he is such a dude. He's a four-time winner of the Iron Dog snow machine race, which is the the world's longest and they say toughest snow machine race, 2,000 miles across Alaska. A whole new chapter here when Todd is asked to do things like - and he graciously complies and he has a good time doing it - hosting...
...Still, Palin seems well-cast to take up the traditional Veep role of attack dog. "It's said the only difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick," Palin wrote in 2004 - and she didn't dispute the claim. "So with lipstick on," she added, "the gloves come...