Number One
A Novel
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Open Road Media
Published:30th Jul '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Tyler Spotswood, an alcoholic campaign manager, helps elect a corrupt Southern politician to the U.S. Senate. When his boss, Chuck Crawford aka “Number One,” pins a scandal on Spotswood, Tyler is too drunk to blow the whistle. Number One draws many comparisons to Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. Crawford reminds many of Louisiana politician Huey Long, a figure studied in person by Dos Passos.
“[Chuck Crawford is the] most noisome, best drawn demagogue in U.S. fiction.” —Time
“Smoothly geared, expertly written, sharply observed.” —The New Yorker
“Few characters in contemporary fiction are so brilliantly inspired and so faithfully exhibited to public view.” —The New York Times
ISBN: 9781504011471
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
210 pages