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Article: A Novelist Runs for Governor.(Denise Giardina; West Virginia)
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- The Progressive
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- November 1, 2000
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Truth may not be stranger than fiction, says Denise Giardina, but politics definitely is. She should know. She has traded in the literary life to wage a spirited third party campaign for governor of West Virginia. The author of four acclaimed novels--including The Unquiet Earth (Norton, 1992), which won an American Book Award--Giardina is running a bold, uphill campaign on the ballot line of the newly created Mountain Party against Republican Governor Cecil Underwood and his Democratic challenger, U.S. Representative Bob Wise.
The stranger-than-fiction theme is well illustrated on a typical campaign day, as Giardina finds herself talking by phone with a Virginia ...