The novel presents two characters travelling by car across the USA in the summer of 1968, a dysfunctional country in an apocalyptic phase, where Bobby Kennedy
is running for president. They are an Englishwoman named...
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Beryl Bainbridge
At the time of her death BB
was working on a novel set at the time of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy
, to be entitled The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress. She...
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Mary McCarthy
Vietnam was the result of this first trip to Saigon (also known as Ho Chi Minh City). It was first published as a three-part series and later collected in a pamphlet. McCarthy's simple yet direct...