There's a scene of Charlie performing oral sex on Alice. There's Charlie's alcoholism, and his DUI arrest. There's an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and a secret abortion. There's a car accident Alice gets into as a teenager, in which a young man she's in love with is killed. "American Wife" is news in a way few novels are, and it's possible, if you haven't read the book, to think of it as a salacious tell-all - a cocktail of scandals and transgressions, some borrowed directly from the Bushes' lives, some the product of Sittenfeld's imagination. Before its publication, Maureen Dowd wrote about "American Wife" in her op-ed column in The New York Times the blogs are abuzz about the book. You would have to be living under a rock not to have heard of "American Wife." Sittenfeld, the author of two previous novels, "Prep" and "The Man of My Dreams," has written a fictionalized portrait of Laura and George Bush.
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