| Trudy Hopedale Contributor(s): Frank, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416549242 ISBN-13: 9781416549246 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: An exquisite political satire from novelist Frank--told from the perspective of quintessential Washington hostess Trudy Hopedale and her social-climbing friend Donald Frizz--this novel is set during the summer and fall of 2000 as the Clintons are moving out and the Bushes are moving in. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Humorous - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007000891 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.08" W x 8.66" (0.78 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Washington, D.C. - Geographic Orientation - District of Columbia - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On the eve of the 2000 election, the charmed life of Washington hostess Trudy Hopedale is quietly falling apart. Her daytime talk show is about to be hijacked by a younger, prettier assistant, and then there is the horrifying novel that her husband has written in secret, which contains some rather troubling implications for a former Foreign Service colleague. And what is her mother-in-law telling everyone? Trudy's dear friend Donald Frizz has benefited greatly from their friendship. A widely recognized expert on the U.S. vice presidency and a frequent guest on Trudy's program, Donald's latest scholarly pursuit is a highly anticipated biography of Garrett Augustus Hobart, McKinley's VP. Exactly who anticipates this book is hard to say, and soon Donald finds himself dodging the awkward questions of plagiarism and his sexuality, frequently during the same conversation. Amid tides of intrigue and shifting allegiances, this little town's extraordinary inhabitants swim helplessly, and alarmingly, toward their remarkable fates. With a bewitching sense of nostalgia, Jeffrey Frank has written an exquisitely funny, tender, and deeply perceptive novel that vividly invokes the simpler world of only yesterday. |
Contributor Bio(s): Frank, Jeffrey: - Jeffrey Frank was a senior editor at The New Yorker and the deputy editor of the Washington Post's Outlook section. He is the author of four novels, including the Washington Trilogy--The Columnist, Bad Publicity, and Trudy Hopedale. He lives in Manhattan with his wife Diana. They have one son. |