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The Cat in the Hat for President: A Political Fable

✍ Scribed by Coover, Robert

Book ID: 109900276
Publisher: OR Books
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Weight: 82 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781682191309

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✦ Synopsis

"Robert Coover remains our foremost verbal wizard, our laughter in the dark." —T.C. Boyle
Fifty years after the original release of Coover's satire, this rollicking fable of the grotesque, unhinged Cat in the Hat (and the stuffed shirts who bet on his success) makes for a bitterly funny indictment of politics-as-usual in 2017.
As Robert Coover read Dr. Seuss to his children in 1968, he noticed "the little Cat in the Hat symbol on the front cover: 'I CAN READ IT ALL BY MYSELF.' It looked remarkably like a campaign button, and, by changing one letter, it was one." Sensing a strange affinity between the anarchic Seussian world and the riots, assassinations, warfare and social upheaval that forever marked 1968 as a year of turmoil, Coover began to write. With the slogan "I CAN LEAD IT ALL BY MYSELF," he imagines a hedonistic, novelty-crazed public and their shameless, nonsense-spewing, hat-wearing demagogue: the Cat in the Hat.
While this mind-bending classic...

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