| 词条 | A Time to Run |
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| name = A Time to Run | image = File:A Time to Run Cover Art.jpeg | caption = Cover of the first edition | alt = Cover art for first edition of "A Time to Run" by Barbara Boxer | author = Barbara Boxer with Mary-Rose Hayes | title_orig = | orig_lang_code = | title_working = | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Political fiction | published = Chronicle Books, 2005 | media_type = Book | pages = 368 | awards = | isbn = 9780811850438 | oclc = 61887566 | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = | followed_by = | wikisource = }} A Time to Run is a political novel written by Senator Barbara Boxer with Mary-Rose Hayes.[1][2] It was published by Chronicle Books and released late in 2005, to mixed and frequently partisan reviews. Plot summaryThe story is set in the present day, with significant flashbacks to times beginning in the early 1970s. The protagonist is Ellen Fischer, a liberal senator from California. She is preparing for a difficult legislative battle over the conservative president's nomination of a deeply conservative female judge to the Supreme Court. Amid numerous particulars of the informal and formal governmental process in the United States, Boxer unfolds her heroine's dilemma and her past simultaneously. The dilemma is presented by a journalist, Greg Hunter, with pronounced right-wing views. Hunter is a figure from the senator's past. They had been lovers while he was in college; he lost her to his roommate, Joshua Fischer. Joshua later dies in the middle of a campaign for Senate; Ellen steps into his place and wins, launching her political career. Now, Hunter has returned, bringing with him information that could derail the judicial nominee's appointment. Fischer is buffeted by new revelations about Hunter and a well-founded distrust of his motives. Literary significance & criticismThe book was received in the spirit that has greeted other politicians' novels, such as those by Newt Gingrich and Jimmy Carter. That is to say, it was received as the work of an enthusiastic amateur rather than a professional writer, despite Boxer's early experience as a journalist and the assistance of Rose. However, low expectations did not prevent some reviewers from being disappointed. Responses often appeared to be split on party lines. The Wall Street Journal and National Review lambasted the novel's convoluted plot, purple passages, and occasional grammatical errors.[3] Center and left publications noted these flaws with more equanimity;[4] in the San Francisco Chronicle, Daniel Handler joked that Boxer made at least as good a novelist as she would have made a senator.[5] Notes1. ^{{cite journal|last=Albert|first=Judith Strong|title=Book Review|journal=Women's Studies|date=March 2007|volume=36|issue=2|pages=117-123|doi=10.1080/00497870601115393}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Time to Run}}{{2000s-novel-stub}}2. ^{{cite journal|last=Riley|first=Sheila|title=A Time to Run|journal=Library Journal|date=November 1, 2005|volume=130|issue=18|pages=63}} 3. ^{{cite web|first=John|last=Miller |title=Boxer Shorts|url=http://nationalreview.com/miller/miller200511160834.asp|publisher=National Review |date=16 November 2005 |accessdate=16 January 2009 | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20081225000301/http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200511160834.asp| archivedate= 25 December 2008 | deadurl= no}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last=Mulrine|first=Anna|author2=Kevin Whitelaw |author3=Alex Kingsbury |author4=Thomas Omestad |author5=Richard J Newman |title=Washington Whispers|journal=U.S. News and World Report|date=December 5, 2005|volume=139|issue=21|pages=14-18}} 5. ^{{cite web|first= Daniel |last= Handler |authorlink=Daniel Handler|title=As a novelist, she's one heck of a senator|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/13/RVGDAFJ17K1.DTL&type=books|publisher =San Francisco Chronicle |date=13 November 2005 |accessdate=16 January 2009 }} 2 : 2005 American novels|American political novels |
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