The senator and the suspense novel: Boxer trying hand at fiction

[Kadie]

The senator and the suspense novel: Boxer trying hand at fiction

By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer


Last Updated: December 2, 2004, 04:50:20 PM PST


WASHINGTON (AP) - Infighting and power, alliances and revenge - it's just another day at the nation's capitol. Now California Sen. Barbara Boxer has mined her workplace for a suspense novel in which the main character is an activist senator who does battle with right-wing ideologues.

That may sound familiar to anyone who knows the liberal Democrat's record. But Boxer said the as-yet-unnamed novel, her first, is purely a work of fiction, though the characters and scenes are drawn from her 12 years in the Senate.

"A lot of what is in the book clearly comes from my world," Boxer said. "The clash of the political and the personal, it became very interesting to me, and the role of the media in all of this. And so I took all of those things and I wrote a story."

The novel is set for publication on Election Day 2005 by Chronicle Books in San Francisco. It tells the story of Ellen, a social activist who runs and wins a Senate seat after her husband, the original candidate, is killed. The third main character is an ambitious, right-wing journalist.

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[Doomsayer13]

1. I'd buy it

combining fiction and the senate. Can't go wrong.