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Article: Literary Life

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September 13, 2009
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President Barack Obama took the following books on holiday to Martha's Vineyard. The Way Home by George Pelecanos, Lush Life by Richard Price and Plainsong by Kent Haruf. The three novels were accompanied by Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, a 448-page tome on the subject of, yawn, climate change and John Adams, double yawn, a presidential biography by David McCullough. Whether President Obama actually read them is, of course, another matter but Mr Pelecanos's thriller was an excellent choice.

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