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Chargement... The Venerable Bead (1992)par Richard Condon
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Condon is one of my Favorite Authors, so I'm reading and re-reading all his books. This was his penultimate novel published in 1992. One of the blurbers said his style was of "paranoid surrealism, though this paranoia has its roots in reality." The first half of the book is satire, the second half is profound. Condon's description of American politics and the bizarre and preposterous world we are now living in could have been written last month. It blew me away. ( )
Condon's faithful always wonder if he knows something: are the grotesque collusions among government, business, and organized crime he limns real? Are New York PR flacks really making national defense policy? Did Washington lawyers actually invent political action committees so that congressmen could be bribed legally? Those suggestions and others arise in this bizarre tale. Condon has traded his satirical scalpel for a chainsaw. Maybe he does know something, and maybe that knowledge has taken some of the fun out of savaging the rich and powerful.
As the story begins...It is the early 1970s, when every American man, woman, and child is fighting the threat of Communist invasion. Leila Aluja, an Iraqi-American lawyer, becomes a film star as part of her job with the government's top counter-espionage unit, in an effort to track down a ring of Sino-Albanian spies operating out of Hollywood's most powerful talent agency. Leila accomplishes her mission, but not before she falls in love with Albanian spymaster Josef Shqitonja, and compromises her organization by allowing him to escape, bringing an end to her budding undercover career. Leila bounces back to become a partner of Washington's largest lobbying firm, representing the National Gun Carriers Association, C.A.N.C.E.R. (Center for American National Cigarette Education and Research), and Barkers Hill Enterprises, investment arm of organized crime. From her law practice, Leila moves onto public relations, and then to the head of the world's largest fast-food conglomerate, all the while separated from her true love, Shqitonja, as he scours Albania for a secret, life-prolonging yogurt formula. Despite the occasional, not to say habitual, affairs, daliances, and marriages, Leila and Shqitonja cling to their love for each other - until the secret of the yogurt finally reunites them. More than just a love story, The Venerable Bead is a saga of love for self, money, unassailable corruption, and power. All just kidding, of course. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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