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"Irony is unAmerican," a character in The Golden Age (Doubleday; 467 pages; $27.50) warns Sanford, and that comment is, of course, intended ironically as well. But the novel completes a very American literary project that, for all its various humors, Vidal takes seriously indeed: a fictional history of the U.S...
The second Roosevelt in the White House receives similar treatment in The Golden Age. As the novel opens in 1940, F.D.R. is shown secretly maneuvering the country toward a war in Europe that the people would, if consulted, totally reject. Sanford's Aunt Caroline, a major character in Empire and...
Anyone still smarting from being left off Vanity Fair's "It" list can surely commiserate with Janey Wilcox. The lead character in the first of the four novellas that make up Candace Bushnell's 4 Blondes (Atlantic Monthly Press; 245 pages; $24) is a former model and "lukewarm" celebrity with...
The changes--in a few, but crucial scenes--don't spare Tori so much as Daddy. Gone from the pilot is Marcy's uncle--and along with him, a layer of show-biz complexity and tension. But remaining is Sloane's Marcy/Tori, a brilliant comic creation down to her slightest...
What Joe and Sammy cannot elude is the postwar era. With graphic comic-book imagery, Chabon writes that the classic superhero "had fallen beneath the whirling thresher blades of changing tastes." By the '50s, Kavalier and Clay are not only old hat but also targets of a congressional committee investigating...