Review
BOOK REVIEW: ; 'The Senator's Wife' echoes the Clintons
Sunday Gazette - Mail
10 Feb 2008
Abstract
[Meri Fowler] has none of [Delia Naughton]'s domestic talent or dignified reticence. She is a messy, rather gauche sort of person. But her gifts are modern ones: She can do things - she has a career as a writer and researcher for a radio show; she is comfortable with her body and has a spontaneous irreverence that makes her funny and forceful in certain contexts. These differences notwithstanding, Meri and Delia are both needy, insecure women. [Sue Miller] strains too hard to put these pieces in place, yet once she does, she is able to manipulate them impressively - to show the weird sacrifices that love can inspire and the sly turns that jealousy and insecurity can induce. I began the book feeling that I didn't like either Delia or Meri very much. By the end, liking them became less important than sympathizing with them. In a cataclysmic, and truly surprising, event at the end, both characters' behavior, though disturbing, is comprehensible.
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Details
- Title
- BOOK REVIEW: ; 'The Senator's Wife' echoes the Clintons
- Creators
- Paula Marantz Cohen
- Publication Details
- Sunday Gazette - Mail
- Publisher
- Charleston Newspapers; Charleston, W.V
- Resource Type
- Review
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Pennoni Honors College
- Identifiers
- 991020836348904721