Article: Cleaver - Tim Parks - Book Review - New York Times

I wonder what Matt Lauer would make of "Cleaver." He might want to take a look at it, one morning during makeup, perhaps, because like Harold Cleaver - the bulbous protagonist of Tim Parks's excellent new novel - Lauer has tangled on camera with an American president. He has felt, against painted cheeks, the heat of power perturbed. Readers may remember Lauer's televised set-to with George W. Bush in 2006, on the carpets of the Oval Office: the two men were standing, and Bush - quizzed with unexpected robustness about torture, secret sites and the rest - began squaring up to his interlocutor, poking and patting him, inching into head-butt range. Lauer, eyes dilated, respectfully but ...

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