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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Meanāa gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life.
Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy,Ā from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, Democracy is aĀ tourā¦
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Some of us marry our childhood sweetheart, while others carry a lifelong torch for a love that seems unattainable. For Inez Victorāmarried to a U.S. Senator and failed Presidential candidate, a woman who has spent her entire adult life being photographedāthe memories of Jack Lovett come in and out of focus like a camera lens. For decades, the two of them nurture a fantasy that finally explodes into the open with the force of the munitions that Lovett sells to governments around the world.
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Jo Jackson believes she has put behind her difficult childhood with a charismatic but sometimes violent father. One day, however, out of the blue, she is moved to write about him. Immediately she comes unstuck, face to face with things that don't add up, and a growing sense of mysteryā¦
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