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Nixoncarver
Richard Nixon and Raymond Carver are walking on a California beach when they meet in this imaginative novel that creates a fictional friendship between the ex-president and the short story writer. In subtle ways, their lives intertwine to explore what it means to achieve, overcome and suffer. In his startling, sparkling debut, Mark Maxwell has conjured a portrait of two troubled, brilliant men, and the gradual processes of their emotional recovery.
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- "Richard Nixon and Raymond Carver are walking on a California beach when they meet in this imaginative novel that creates a fictional friendship between the ex-president and the short story writer. In subtle ways, their lives intertwine to explore what it means to achieve, overcome and suffer. In his startling, sparkling debut, Mark Maxwell has conjured a portrait of two troubled, brilliant men, and the gradual processes of their emotional recovery."@en
- "A comedy on a friendship between a politician and a poet. The protagonists are Richard Nixon and Richard Carver and the novel follows them as they fish, play poker, and discuss family life and sex. A debut in fiction."