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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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05 Sep 2004 04:14:13 AM |
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OT: Once upon a time in America |
Once upon a time in America
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,1296010,00.html
America is fired up about this year's election like never before.
Michael Moore fills cinemas, the candidates are at each other's
throats, and the country's artistic community is taking to the
streets. As protest reaches fever pitch, nine American novelists tell
Robert McCrum of their hopes and fears for their nation's next chapter
Sunday September 5, 2004
The Guardian
It is 9 August 2004, 30 years to the day that Richard Nixon left the
White House in disgrace. Carl Hiaasen is fishing for baby tarpon in
the shallow waters in front of his house on the Florida Keys. The
bestselling author of Skinny Dip, Strip Tease and Stormy Weather
remembers that day only too well. He had just started as a cub
reporter with Florida Today, a local newspaper, and was assigned to do
vox-pop interviews with Miami voters. 'You know,' he says, apropos of
our conversation about American politics a generation after those
momentous weeks, 'it's even worse now.' Hiaasen's lure snakes out
across the water. There's a splash and a vicious swirl as the fish
bite.
Robert McCrum
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