Carpe Christo

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY doesn’t merely observe the zeitgeist better than anyone else on the planet. He anticipates it-and routinely has a new novel finished at the precise moment when everyone else is about to notice that something is afoot.

Call it premature instinct. Whatever it is, he seems to have intuited that one Sarah Palin-a made-for-TV, gun-totin’, caribou-kickin’ frontier woman-was about to emerge, suddenly and improbably, onto the national political scene. Which is to say, Supreme Courtship’s female protagonist, Perdita “Pepper” Cartwright, is eerily Palinesque, a literary doppelganger so true that you begin to wonder which is the fictional character-Palin or Pepper? Satire doesn’t cut much closer to the bone.

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Kathleen Parker

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CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY doesn’t merely observe the zeitgeist better than anyone else on the planet. He anticipates it-and routinely has a new novel finished at the precise moment when everyone else is about to notice that something is afoot.

Call it premature instinct. Whatever it is, he seems to have intuited that one Sarah Palin-a made-for-TV, gun-totin’, caribou-kickin’ frontier woman-was about to emerge, suddenly and improbably, onto the national political scene. Which is to say, Supreme Courtship’s female protagonist, Perdita “Pepper” Cartwright, is eerily Palinesque, a literary doppelganger so true that you begin to wonder which is the fictional character-Palin or Pepper? Satire doesn’t cut much closer to the bone.