Title: Nixoncarver
First published: 1998
Description: What would happen if celebrated writer Raymond Carver and legendary political animal Richard Nixon just happened to meet while walking along a California beach? And what would happen if they became - gasp! - friends?

Nixoncarver, that's what. In a brilliantly imagined story, we read about Tricky Dick's tormented childhood and Carver's existential angst. Imagine a black-suited Richard Nixon nestled into a leather reading chair, his back to a view of the Pacific, as he scribbles frantically on a yellow legal pad. Now picture, across the room, a puffy Ray Carver seated at his typewriter in his straight-backed chair, a pillow beneath him to ease his swelling hemorrhoids. Has this scene really happened? No. Could it have?

Read nixoncarver and make the call.
Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, general
People: Raymond Carver, Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), Richard M. Nixon (1913-)
LC classification: PS3563.A922 N58 1998