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Fiction

SheilaT

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9. It's amazing, but then I love everything I've

Reply to Little Star (Reply #8)

Sun Apr 22, 2012, 09:49 PM

Apr 2012

read of his. An early novel, Henry and Clara is simply one of the best I've ever read.

In Watergate he has you inside the heads of lots of the main players in the drama. Yes, it's fiction, and who knows WHAT Pat Nixon might have been thinking, but it feels incredibly real. There is an authenticity in a good novel, especially in a good historical novel, that comes when the author really does his research, and doesn't just make up whatever he feels like making up. Mallon is one of those.

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