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    Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life

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    Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon's wife: 'interchangeable with a Martian,' she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon's point of view. Beattie packs insight and humor into her examination of the First Couple with whom baby boomers came of age. Mrs. Nixon is a startlingly compelling and revelatory work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateNov 15, 2011
    ISBN9781611204940
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    • 4/5
      As someone with a perverse interest in Nixoniana, I was expecting that Ann Beattie's Mrs. Nixon might do for Pat what Robert Coover did for (to?) RN in The Public Burning: take the historical figure as we have come to know him/her, smash through all those received narratives with the writerly sledgehammer, and rebuild him/her as a complex, sympathetic, pathetic, supremely weird character.

      Mrs. Nixon is not that book.

      Instead, it's a captivating collection of anecdotes, quips, imagined conversations, and reflections on the work and the art of storytelling. Pat Nixon, as she was in her husband's life and memoirs, and in the public imagination, still lingers on the periphery, coming into focus briefly before retreating again. The Mrs. Nixon that Beattie reveals and constructs isn't a surprise. What is surprising is the way that Beattie weaves these stories between her thoughts on how stories are told versus how they're written, on how writers might fill in silences and gaps and create new ones. For me, as one who finds herself inexplicably drawn to the mythology and melodrama of the Nixon years, Mrs. Nixon is enjoyable; as one who writes (or tries to), it's exciting and insightful.
    • 1/5
      I cannot say I actually read all of this book. I listened to the first disc in the CD which is read by the author. To say it was annoying is an understatement. Ms. Beattie's voice is monotonous and with little affect. And the book is more a writer's exercise than the fictionalized biography I was expecting. Honestly, she goes on ad nauseum comparing a crystal ball and a crystal bowl. I thought I would scream until I realized all I had to do was push the eject button......which I did.
    • 4/5
      Subject proves as elusive in the afterlife as in life
    • 3/5
      Quite an unusual literary collage of sorts. Inappropriate to categorize as an authentic fictional biography of Pat Nixon because the primary focus appears to be the elephant in the "book" referred to as RN, and Ann Beattie's incessant professorial banter not only heavily spiced with a vast array of literary devices, but also replete with accompanying morsels."...Salesclerk, Lyrical Ballad Bookstore, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., July2007: Some Life magazines, huh? Look at that Tricia Nixon Cox, on the cover, in her bridal dress! You know, I saw Mrs. Nixon once, in Washington. At the Kennedy Center. She was so thin. (Long pause.) It wasn't her fault..." - page 205Most intriguing comment by Mrs. Nixon is very telling, "...All writing is about altering time...you erase yourself every time you write..."