Face-Time - Rilegato

Tarloff, Erik

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ISBN 10: 0609604635 ISBN 13: 9780609604632

Casa editrice: Crown Pub, 1999

Riassunto

Ben and Gretchen, two political activists, gain jobs in the new administration when their candidate becomes president, but Ben is bewildered when Gretchen refuses to end an affair with the president, because of the personal access it gives her, access that indirectly benefits Ben as well

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Recensione

"Yes, this is a book about a president who has an extramarital affair. But, no, it is not a documentary about any real person living, dead or damaged.   This is real fiction, a superbly written novel of believable people with real emotions and dilemmas that come
from deep within the human soul--not the headlines."        
--Jim Lehrer, author of Purple Dots and White Widow

"This book may be the best thing written about Washington in these strange times. It works beautifully both as a novel and as commentary on contemporary politics. It offers glimpses of the interior lives of political people you won't find anywhere else."
--Michael Lewis, author of Liar's Poker and Trail Fever

"I'm never one to judge a book by who's under the covers, but this account of an occupant of the Oval Office's penchant for bestowing his very intimate Presidential Sealof approval on the women around him is a total joy. Erik Tarloff's wit, fueled by his razor-sharp perception, skillfully reveals the price that lesser mortals are forced topay for such extracurricular executive privileges."
--Larry Gelbart, author of Laughing Matters: On Writing Mash, Tootsie, Oh, God! and A Few Other Funny Things

"It is the ultimate Washington novel, and only Erik Tarloff, with his extraordinary writing talent and his insider's knowledge of the White House, could have pulled it off. You literally won't put this down until you are done."
--Judy Woodruff, Anchor and Senior Correspondent on CNN

"Erik Tarloff, a wickedly funny writer and bona fide Washington spouse, lays bare the disconnect between power-sex and anything resembling love, commitment or even pleasure. A more convincing morality tale than the Starr report, and a helluva lot more fun to read."
--Gail Sheehy, author of Passages and Understanding Men's Passages

"Sex in the White House is not rare, and cynicism in high places is not rare, but rare indeed is the novelist who can handle these topics with irony and wit, and the right sort of below-the-Beltway savvy. Tarloff in '99!"
--Christopher Hitchens, Washington Correspondent, Vanity Fair

"Face Time is a brisk, scintillating, funny, poignant and revelatory look at the intersection of public and private lives in Washington by an acute social critic who has seen it all from the inside."
- Michael Beschloss, author of RooseveIt and Kennedy and Taking Charge

"Erik Tarloff has written an uncannily insightful book, funny yet moving, about Washington and about power and what power does to the human heart and spirit."
--Elizabeth Drew, author of Whatever it Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America

L'autore

Erik Tarloff has published short fiction and pieces in the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications. He has written for both the stage and screen and contributed, on a pro bono basis, to speeches for President Bill Clinton, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Vice President Al Gore, among others.

Erik is married to Laura D'Andrea Tyson, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and the National Economic Council during President Clinton's first term.

They live in Berkeley, California, with their son, Elliot. This is Erik Tarloff's first novel.

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• Editore: Crown Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609604635
• ISBN 13: 9780609604632
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 249