NEW YORK – SARAH Palin may fashion herself as a go-it-alone maverick, but her book is producing a crowd.
By the time the former Alaska governor’s memoir – ‘Going Rogue: An American Life’ – officially hits book stores on Tuesday – there’ll be a legion of titles waiting to cash in, from unauthorised biographies to critical essays to a tongue-in-cheek coloring book.
That doesn’t even include the picture book ‘Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles’ – which superimposes her head on paintings and famous photos – and a boomlet of self-published books, including one that weirdly takes Henrik Ibsen’s play ‘Hedda Gabler’ and merely substitutes Gabler for Ms Palin and George Tesman for Todd Palin.
This much is clear: Ms Palin, whose wardrobe got her in trouble during the presidential campaign, has apparently sparked others to ride her memoir’s coattails, whether to assault, defend or just giggle.
‘There is something about her which is very hard not to be drawn into,’ says Colin Robinson, co-publisher at OR Books, which is putting out a collection of essays pulled together by two senior editors at The Nation, a politically liberal magazine. ‘It might be a sort of adoration. Or it might be that one is appalled. But you can’t stop watching.’
Mr Robinson’s book doesn’t exactly hide its disdain for the former Republican vice presidential candidate, who is pictured on the cover in front of a stormy sky. It’s called ‘Going Rouge: Sarah Palin, An American Nightmare.’ ‘Sarah Palin isn’t going away. That’s clear,’ Mr Robinson says. — AP
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