Publisher cancels re-issue of racy novel by Lynne Cheney

[JoFerret]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2004-04-03-cheney-book_x.htm

<<New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), was going to reprint Sisters, a historical romance published in 1981 that includes brothels, attempted rapes and a lesbian love affair.

"We felt interest was growing because it was an election year and we decided it could be a timely book," Liz Perl, executive director of publicity at New American Library, told The Associated Press on Friday.

But according to Cheney's attorney, Robert Barnett, she did not even know about the reissue until receiving calls last week from the media. Barnett then contacted the publisher, which agreed this week to pull the novel.
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Perl and Barnett said no legal action was threatened. Although New American Library had the rights to reissue the novel, Perl said, there was no desire "to put out a book that the author was not happy with."

Liberals have often mocked Sisters, noting that Cheney is a longtime conservative and that President Bush supports a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Her novel was the subject of a recent satirical performance at the New York Theatre Workshop, with actors reading such passages as, "Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl." >>
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[LittleApple81]

1. Not representative of her best work???? What??? What is her best work?

Helping destroy America, I bet.

[Wickerman]

2. publisher decides he likes life and wants his family safe

from harm aftering finding horse head in bed.

[donsu]

3. the bushgang used their tried and true BBB&T tactic

bully, bribe, blackmail or threaten (if all else fails, murder)

what is the name of the spineless person at Penguin?
out with it.

what did the bushgang threaten them with?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Here's a link shared by a DU reader

who finds it somewhat amusing:



Excerpts follow, unfortunately! :hi:

http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp

[maddezmom]

7. MRS. CHENEY'S LITERARY MASTERPIECE

BWHAAAAAA

[Stephanie]

8. Ah. Now I get it. Poor Lynne.

Do you suppose she's been treated as an "abject sexual vassal"? Does she "despise the marriage act"? Is she part of the vast majority of "silent, trapped women?" And I wonder if she has a "secret that tainted her life"? What could it be?

Can you imagine having to look at that drooling mug over the breakfast table, let alone on the Beautyrest?

There must be copies of this available - we should be checking every used book store.

[Piperay]

23. whoa...

sounds like Cheney is expressing her own feelings about how uncle dickie treats her. :hurts:

[RhodaGrits]

5. If you want a good chuckle, check out the customer...

reviews of this novel online at Amazon.com.

[jdsmith]

6. Elaine Showalter on Lynne Cheney, Ph.D.

http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i05/05b01101.htm

[yardwork]

19. Showalter LIKED the book. Based on the excerpts, I can only ask....

are they both on drugs?

[fortyfeetunder]

9. Was Lynne trrying to make sense of her daughter's sexuality?

Now that I've seen the excerpts...wonder if this had anything to do with the Cheney family trying to make sense of their daughter's sexuality....interesting...

[jdsmith]

10. Customers who bought titles by Lynne Cheney (Amazon)

also bought titles by these authors:

Karen Santorum
David Catrow
Madonna
Devin Scillian
Sarah Ferguson

[Bertha Venation]

11. Karen Santorum?

The wife of Anal Slime?

[havocmom]

12. How amusing this breaks the same time news of DOJ cracking down on

adult porn. Guess Cheney didn't want Ashcroft carting Lynne off to bunk in with Martha.

[PaDUer]

17. Dicky doo didn't

want to chance of lynnie going back to a woman..he's no day at the beach!
edit--Hell, more truth coming out..interesting..no wonder we don't hear much about Lynne, maybe her and pickles having a thing going on.

[cliss]

13. What is the story with that couple? (Dick & Lynne)

They have one daughter, Mary, who is a lesbian. The wife (Lynne) writes fiction about gays. Dick Cheney appears to be an alcoholic (he's had several DUI's - a good indicator).

And these are the upstanding moralists on the Religious Right?

[PaDUer]

20. Sure...

he's drinking due to not being able to "touch" her, thus resulting in "handjobs"! Hell, the good old boys wiil take care of that!!

edit--they "take the matter in the hands".

[MikeG]

14. Her best work of fiction would be telling her husband she had an orgasm.

[ScrewyRabbit]

15. Horrific image

The thought of Lynne and Dick having sex. File that under "DON'T VISUALIZE"!

[Piperay]

22. Oh God

the thought of those two together...:puke: :puke: :puke:

[countmyvote4real]

16. I heard it here first. That's probably all I'll I hear of it.

And that would be fine. Except, if this was a novel by Tipper Gore or Hillary Clinton, it would be round the clock on CNN and the usual suspects.

So, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. And methinks they doth protest too much with the amendment to ban gay marriage

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. For the sake of family values,

I think copies of this literary masterpiece should immediately be sent to all fundy church libraries.

[PaDUer]

21. Great idea...

yes, everyone keep your eyes open for this "literary masterpiece"..hell, we can spend 25cents on this book, and donate it to the fundy church libraries. There's got to be some private owned bookstores who might have copies sitting on the shelf...Also check out the dollar stores..today I saw 10 copies of Laura Ingraham's book "The Hillary Trap" on the shelves selling for $1.00...goes to tell you their books suck!