Rasputin Swims the Potomac

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It’s time for a new season of The Real West Wing, and viewers are looking forward to watching the President run for his third term, recently cleared by the Supreme Court. There may or may not be a new weeping sickness sweeping the nation, and an unlikely hero is recruited to join the President’s campaign – mystical pro-wrestler Rasputin. (That Rasputin? Maybe.) An intriguing and diverse cast of characters spanning the political spectrum including a reporter with the same name as a Supreme Court judge, a former country music teen star and a wayward First Lady find themselves spinning into spandex-clad destiny no number of executive orders can control.

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IN A WORLD THAT’S LIKE OURS BUT EVEN STRANGER . . .

A TV star president is campaigning for a constitutionally dubious third term, normal Americans are falling into an unexplained weeping sickness and a wrestler claiming to be the reincarnated mystic Rasputin is making a spandex-clad entrance into politics.

Meanwhile Clarence Thomas Jr. is a journalist just trying to make sense of his country as it unmoors from reality. But with violence and bullshit erupting everywhere, things seem to be approaching collapse. Or maybe it’s all building to a grand gesture: something political, romantic, religious, insane and quite possibly fatal.

From award-winning author Ben Fountain, Rasputin Swims the Potomac is outrageously funny, wildly imagined and razor-sharp satire. It asks: what could possibly grow out of what we have now, except for something even stranger, harder to grasp and more tumultuous? And will what comes next be better or, somehow, even worse?

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Weight 422 g
Dimensions 21.4 × 13.5 × 3 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

416
Language

English
Edition

C format original
Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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