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'U.S.!': Resurrecting Upton Sinclair

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From: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
Date: 20060311
Author:SUSAN STAMBERG

SUSAN STAMBERG
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
03-11-2006
'U.S.!': Resurrecting Upton Sinclair

Host: SUSAN STAMBERG
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM

SUSAN STAMBERG, host:

There was very little that was funny about the intrepid, passionate, muckraking American novelist Upton Sinclair, but a new novel about Sinclair is hilarious and bizarre, brilliant wacko. The book is called, U.S.! It opens with a still-dead Upton Sinclair sitting in the backseat of an old four-door Plymouth Valiant. Two young men have just exhumed his body. Author Chris Bachelder reads from the opening scenes.

Mr. CHRIS BACHELDER ...

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