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Cleaver

a novel

By Parks, Tim

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It is the autumn of 2006, shortly before the midterm elections that would determine whether the Democrats would regain control of Congress. Celebrated journalist, broadcaster, and documentary filmmaker Harold Cleaver has just embarrassed the American president in a damning television interview. But offsetting Cleaver's success is the unbearable scrutiny of his elder son's equally devastating roman à clef, Under His Shadow. Overweight and overwrought, Cleaver abruptly abandons his home, his wife, his mistresses, and , above all, television, the glowing box that brought him identity and power.

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ISBN
978-1-55970-855-5
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New York : Arcade Pub. : 2008.


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Reviewed on February 1, 2008

In this latest from Booker Prize finalist Parks (Europa), British media personality Harold Cleaver has just skewered the President of the United States in a television interview and, turning his back on society, retreats into the mountains. The narrative is conveyed with ironic humor and precision through Cleaver's inner voice as he thinks about his ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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