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Title:

Duluth
 

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Genres:

Criticism & Commentary
Humour & Satire

Editions:

# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 1983-00-00  

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Summary (From the publisher):

Spoofing just about everything imaginable, from motherhood to television, Gore Vidal's burlesque is not about the real Duluth, but a bizarre sort of Everytown, U.S.A., with swamps, deserts, and both palm trees and snow. When two women perish in a snowdrift, one is reborn in the popular television series Duluth, and the other finds herself in the "Hyatt Regency" romance novel Rogue Duke. Meanwhile, police lieutenant (and strip-search enthusiast) Darlene Ecks terrorizes a barrio full of illegal Mexicans and zealously pursues black Big John (drug dealer, master criminal, and her sometime lover). Duluth's mayor plumbs the mysteries of a swamped (literally) spaceship, and a battle is waged between two competing Betty Grable biographers.