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Random House
July 2012
On Sale: July 10, 2012
440 pages
ISBN: 1400067200
EAN: 9781400067206
Kindle: B005X0K2W8
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In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times
bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday
and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful
and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent
insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural
observation and seductive storytelling alternates between
the present and the 1960s—and indelibly captures the
enduring impact of that time on the ways we live
now.
Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who
recently removed herself from consideration for appointment
to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in
1968—an episode she’s managed to keep secret for more than
forty years. Now, with the imminent publication of her
memoir, she’s about to let the world in on that shocking
secret—as soon as she can track down the answers to a few
crucial last questions.
As junior-high-school kids
back in the early sixties, Karen and her two best friends,
Chuck and Alex, roamed suburban Chicago on their bikes
looking for intrigue and excitement. Inspired by the exotic
romance of Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels, they acted out
elaborate spy missions pitting themselves against imaginary
Cold War villains. As friendship carries them through
childhood and on to college—in a polarized late-sixties
America riven by war and race as well as sex, drugs, and
rock and roll—the bad guys cease to be the creatures of
make-believe. Caught up in the fervor of that extraordinary
and uncanny time, they find themselves swept into a
dangerous new game with the highest possible
stakes.
Today, only a handful of people are left who
know what happened. As Karen reconstructs the past and
reconciles the girl she was then with the woman she is now,
finally sharing pieces of her secret past with her
national-security-cowboy boyfriend and Occupy-activist
granddaughter, the power of memory and history and luck
become clear. A resonant coming-of-age story and a thrilling
political mystery, True Believers is Kurt Andersen’s
most ambitious novel to date, introducing a brilliant,
funny, and irresistible new heroine to contemporary fiction.
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