Some readers may be disappointed: this is not political satire, with "very little that is political or even historical" (Oates).
You can read the first chapter here.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
When politics and librarians bushly mix. . .
Curtis Sittenfeld's novel American Wife (2008) was reviewed by Joyce Carol Oates in the New York Times (August 29, 2008). The novel, writes Oates, is "conspicuously modeled after the life of Laura Bush as recorded in Ann Gerhart's biography The Perfect Wife: The Life and Choices of Laura Bush (2004)."
