Nixoncarver

Richard Nixon and Raymond Carver are walking on a California beach when they meet in this imaginative novel that creates a fictional friendship between the ex-president and the short story writer. In subtle ways, their lives intertwine to explore what it means to achieve, overcome and suffer. In his startling, sparkling debut, Nixoncarver , Mark Maxwell has conjured a portrait of two troubled, brilliant men, and the gradual processes of their emotional recovery.