![]() ![]() Because Charlie and Alice so often exactly reflect Dubya and Laura, a tension develops when a certain detail - an abortion - is not immediately recognisable or verifiable. This combination of the looked-up and the made-up within a single narrative is a recurrent controversy of this genre of faction. Yet, in other respects, this topical simulacram diverges from the biographical model: Princeton rather than Yale, money from meat rather than oil, a father who was a state governor rather than a former president. ![]() Charlie too is elected by a Supreme Court decision. As Charlie goofs around the White House, joking about the impending merger between General Electric and Alitalia - "They're going to call the company Genitalia!" - the reader sees and hears George W Bush. ![]()
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