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Loading... Waterloo: A Novelby Karen Olsson
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 Karen Olsson’s first novel focuses on the two species of citizen endemic to Waterloo, the capital of Texas: musicians and politicians. A trio of shared desires unites them: “not to have to work too hard, to be locally renowned, and to drink beer paid for by somebody else.” If this sounds like the city motto of a certain other capital of Texas, it’s because Olsson is a sort of literary Richard Linklater, grafting her fictional Austin on top of the existing town.
"You're in a slump." Nick Lasseter's boss is talking about his job performance as a reporter for the Waterloo Weekly, but he might as well be talking about Nick's whole life. His current assignment, a profile of a legendary liberal ex-congressman, is in trouble even before the subject abruptly dies. When Nick grudgingly agrees to write a piece about a rising female Republican legislator, he stumbles onto a political fight in which the good guys and bad guys start to seem interchangeable. Then, when he gets involved with the late congressman's confidante, it seems that not even the deceased can be relied on to stick to their stories. Some things never change: the moral ambiguity of practical politics, and the hilarious cluelessness of young men in love. No library descriptions found. |
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