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Mrs. Nixon
2011
 4  3
5.7/10
HARDCOVER
FICTION
English
304
Scribner
1439168717
9781439168714
Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art. Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife: “interchangeable with a Martian,” she said. |
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 The Boston Globe Rebecca Steinitz
This often enchanting, sometimes frustrating book gives us tantalizing glimpses of Nixon, and a fully realized account of fiction, fiction writing, and the fiction writer. |
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USA Today Brian Bralker
Beattie has created a hybrid biography that gets us a little closer to understanding the enigmatic wife of Richard Nixon. |
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Book People Blog Julie W.
There’s a lot more to this book, which is as layered and complicated as its famous subject. It’s like no other reading experience I’ve had. |
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San Francisco Chronicle Dawn Raffel
Written in short, nonchronological chapters, the book is a kind of kaleidoscope in which shards of fact refract off shards of literary, often self-conscious, reconstruction. |
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The Daily Beast Pat Nixon
Ann Beattie’s playful and polymorphous new book, Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, is unlike anything she has written. |
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Washington Post Marie Arana
Poor Mrs. Nixon doesn’t stand a chance. In fiction as in life, she is shunted aside, more trivial and neglected than she ever was in Mr. Nixon’s White House. |
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