A Time to Run
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| Author | Barbara Boxer with Mary-Rose Hayes |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Political fiction |
| Published | Chronicle Books, 2005 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Book |
| Pages | 368 |
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| OCLC | 61887566 |
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A Time to Run is a political novel written by Senator Barbara Boxer with Mary-Rose Hayes.[1][2] It was published by Chronicle Books and released late in 2005, to mixed and frequently partisan reviews.
Plot summary
The story is set in the present day, with significant flashbacks to times beginning in the early 1970s. The protagonist is Ellen Fischer, a liberal senator from California. She is preparing for a difficult legislative battle over the conservative president's nomination of a deeply conservative female judge to the Supreme Court. Amid numerous particulars of the informal and formal governmental process in the United States, Boxer unfolds her heroine's dilemma and her past simultaneously. The dilemma is presented by a journalist, Greg Hunter, with pronounced right-wing views. Hunter is a figure from the senator's past. They had been lovers while he was in college; he lost her to his roommate, Joshua Fischer. Joshua later dies in the middle of a campaign for Senate; Ellen steps into his place and wins, launching her political career. Now, Hunter has returned, bringing with him information that could derail the judicial nominee's appointment. Fischer is buffeted by new revelations about Hunter and a well-founded distrust of his motives.
Literary significance & criticism
The book was received in the spirit that has greeted other politicians' novels, such as those by Newt Gingrich and Jimmy Carter. It was received as the work of an enthusiastic amateur rather than a professional writer, despite Boxer's early experience as a journalist and the assistance of Rose. Low expectations did not prevent some reviewers from being disappointed with responses often appeared to be split on party lines. The Wall Street Journal and National Review lambasted the novel's "convoluted" plot, purple passages, and occasional grammatical errors.[3] Center and left publications noted these flaws with more equanimity;[4] in the San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Handler joked that Boxer made at least as good a novelist as she would have made a senator.[5]
Notes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Albert, Judith Strong (March 2007). "Book Review". Women's Studies. 36 (2): 117–123. doi:10.1080/00497870601115393. S2CID 219614066.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Riley, Sheila (November 1, 2005). "A Time to Run". Library Journal. 130 (18): 63.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Miller, John (November 16, 2005). "Boxer Shorts". National Review. Archived from the original on December 25, 2008. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mulrine, Anna; Kevin Whitelaw; Alex Kingsbury; Thomas Omestad; Richard J Newman (December 5, 2005). "Washington Whispers". U.S. News & World Report. 139 (21): 14–18.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Handler, Daniel (November 13, 2005). "As a novelist, she's one heck of a senator". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
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