Nixoncarver - A Novel

Richard Nixon and Raymond Carver meet while walking on a California beach in this imaginative novel that creates a fictional bond 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, Mark Maxwell has conjured a portrait of two troubled, brilliant men, and the rewards of a friendship that might have been.