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Dinner Party, The
By: Howard Fast
audio performed by: Tom Casaletto, Roger Dressler, Rose Anne Shansky, J. C. Howe, Norma Brink, Paul Dreher, Gladys Long, Dorothy Powell, Ron Savage, Jan Simpson, Kitty Carpenter, Rick Dean, Lynn Foote, Pamela Klein, Saxon-Farris Page, Gene Proctor
genre: Fiction - Fiction
publication date:08/01/2008
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Howard Fast's 1987 New York Times bestseller, a tight political drama that remains just as relevant today as when it was first written
Fast's 1987 novel The Dinner Party confronts issues including American intervention in Latin America and the AIDS epidemic. Often compared to a play, The Dinner Party takes place during a single day, culminating in a party hosted by Richard Cromwell, a US Senator whose wealthy entrepreneur father-in-law is building a controversial highway across Central America, though powerful government interests want the highway stopped stopped. International politics become deeply personal in this novel, and unfailingly serve as a commentary on contemporary politics.