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An Imperfect Candidate

Nao Hauser

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Description:An idealistic law student thinks he knows where good and evil lie--and soon discovers he doesn’t, in this novel about crime and redemption, set in the midst of Chicago politics over a period of 20 years. Just before he begins law school, with his ambitions set on running for office one day, Arthur Gorman marries the daughter of a construction magnate and alleged racketeer, Tolland Shenck. He believes he can follow a political path that will steer clear of Shencks’s corrupt Machine connections. But not long after the wedding and the start of classes, his prospects are cut off when his wife, Harriet, is kidnapped and held for ransom by those he believed shared his ideals. Gorman is forced to drop out of school and restart his life, working in his father’s shoe store. Harriet is gone, having divorced him after her release and moved West. But after years apart, she returns, unwilling to give up forever on the love and ideals they had shared. She insists on going back to the poor neighborhood that had been the scene of the crime and to the community center that had attracted Arthur, as a beginning law student, to its good work and political prospects. On the night of the crime, Harriet had been on her way there to meet him—and the criminals had used this to entrap her. Still, she goes back there, daily, rather than give up what she had once believed in, and so, eventually, does Arthur. When a Machine politician sets out to destroy the community center, Harriet comes up with a way to save it and enlists Tolland Shenck’s collaboration. In this way, Arthur’s onetime political ambition is resurrected when they insist he stick with what he once believed in and run against the Machine. But with his youthful ideals having yielded to harsh reality, Arthur knows his winning depends on his being an imperfect candidate. The character of Tolland Shenck, crook and redeemer, towers over this novel, which begins in the year of Watergate and ends in the hopeful era of Clinton. Nao Hauser lived in Chicago for 14 years, witnessing the politics of the Machine and the Left as well as the urban dynamic of gentrification that underpins An Imperfect Candidate. Her previous novels are Bronoff’s Rules, a comedy about playing the stock market; The Restaurant Reviewer, a drama about lovers, young and old, coming to terms with mortality and what a good man’s life means. set in New York City after 9/11; and The Branding of Wendell Dawes, a comic tale of a serious chef with a failing restaurant learning how to be a hot chef.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Imperfect Candidate. To get started finding An Imperfect Candidate, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 319

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: OMR Press

Release: 2020

ISBN: 0977400123

Description: An idealistic law student thinks he knows where good and evil lie--and soon discovers he doesn’t, in this novel about crime and redemption, set in the midst of Chicago politics over a period of 20 years. Just before he begins law school, with his ambitions set on running for office one day, Arthur Gorman marries the daughter of a construction magnate and alleged racketeer, Tolland Shenck. He believes he can follow a political path that will steer clear of Shencks’s corrupt Machine connections. But not long after the wedding and the start of classes, his prospects are cut off when his wife, Harriet, is kidnapped and held for ransom by those he believed shared his ideals. Gorman is forced to drop out of school and restart his life, working in his father’s shoe store. Harriet is gone, having divorced him after her release and moved West. But after years apart, she returns, unwilling to give up forever on the love and ideals they had shared. She insists on going back to the poor neighborhood that had been the scene of the crime and to the community center that had attracted Arthur, as a beginning law student, to its good work and political prospects. On the night of the crime, Harriet had been on her way there to meet him—and the criminals had used this to entrap her. Still, she goes back there, daily, rather than give up what she had once believed in, and so, eventually, does Arthur. When a Machine politician sets out to destroy the community center, Harriet comes up with a way to save it and enlists Tolland Shenck’s collaboration. In this way, Arthur’s onetime political ambition is resurrected when they insist he stick with what he once believed in and run against the Machine. But with his youthful ideals having yielded to harsh reality, Arthur knows his winning depends on his being an imperfect candidate. The character of Tolland Shenck, crook and redeemer, towers over this novel, which begins in the year of Watergate and ends in the hopeful era of Clinton. Nao Hauser lived in Chicago for 14 years, witnessing the politics of the Machine and the Left as well as the urban dynamic of gentrification that underpins An Imperfect Candidate. Her previous novels are Bronoff’s Rules, a comedy about playing the stock market; The Restaurant Reviewer, a drama about lovers, young and old, coming to terms with mortality and what a good man’s life means. set in New York City after 9/11; and The Branding of Wendell Dawes, a comic tale of a serious chef with a failing restaurant learning how to be a hot chef.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with An Imperfect Candidate. To get started finding An Imperfect Candidate, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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