When two women tragically perish in a Duluth snowdrift, the one called Edna is reborn in ‘Duluth’, the popular television series and the one called Beryl finds herself in a ‘Hyatt Regency’ romantic novel entitled ROGUE DUKE. In Duluth they do it all with word processors. Meanwhile Lieutenant Darlene Ecks, strip-search enthusiast, terrorizes a barrio full of illegal Mexican immigrants until they rise up in defiance, the mayor plumbs the mysteries of a bright red spaceship and a life and death contest is waged between Duluth’s leading socialite and its foremost author to complete contradictory biographies of Betty Grable.Gore Vidal’s wicked extravaganza sports special effects not expected in a novel; and it poses taunting puzzles like who is the guy they call The Dude? And why is it said, ‘Every society gets the Duluth it deserves’?]]>
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