![]() ![]() The narrator Jack Burden has become the narrator Again, he seems to want us to know that he has done it. He has lifted his emotional infrastructure - or at any rate the book's central relationships -įrom ''All the King's Men,'' Robert Penn Warren's fictionalized account of the rise of Huey Long. The author, whoever he or she is, makes about as much effort to cover his tracks through literature as he does through life. Only the identity of the author remains unknown to the reader. It is a strange reversal of the usual conventions of fiction. York Times makes a cameo appearance as the oenophile A. Even the journalists are impossible to miss: the oenophile R. Of New York, Orlando Ozio Gennifer Flowers has become Cashmere McLeod (with tapes) Hope, Ark., has become Grace Junction (the state is unnamed). The pious Governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, has become the pious Governor Almost every character, incident and setting has been drawn directly from life, and the author does everything in his power to make sure that we do not miss the connections.īill Clinton is recast as Governor (of a small Southern state) Jack Stanton, complete with bimbo eruptions, a draft problem and a strident wife (here named Susan). Must have appeared through the eyes of George Stephanopoulos. Although it is advertised as a novel, it tells the story of the 1992 Democratic primaries pretty much exactly as they ![]() THIS book was written by an artful thief, someone who knew just how much he could steal and get away with it. ![]()
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