Mrs. Nixon
A Novelist Imagines a Life
A novelist circles Pat Nixon, admits she cannot reach her, and writes that as the book.
Ann Beattie circles Pat Nixon, a woman who gave almost nothing away in public and left little behind, and rather than inventing an interior life she writes about the impossibility of reaching one. The book moves between fiction, biography and essays on craft, and it is as much about what novelists do to real people as it is about the Nixons.
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Richard Bausch
Here is Richard Nixon's wife, in her dignity, without the glib matters that plagued her. It's a stunning achievement.
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