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To: lurqer who wrote (41225)	4/3/2004 3:55:16 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

I will leave to one's imagination what "her best work" might be. Publisher Won't Reissue Lynn Cheney Novel A publisher has canceled plans to reissue a racy novel by Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, after she said the book did not represent "her best work." 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 plans until receiving calls last week from the media. Barnett then contacted the publisher, which agreed this week to pull the novel. "I told them that she did not think the book was her best work," said Barnett, who represents numerous political leaders, including former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "If there is a serious demand for this 25-year-old book, I am confident that America's used bookstores will be able to satisfy it," Barnett said. 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." "Sisters" has long been out of print and is not mentioned in Cheney's biography on the White House Web site. In 2001, she told a New York Times reporter that she couldn't even remember the plot. Cheney has been active in publishing over the past couple of years, releasing the best-selling children's book "America: A Patriotic Primer," and sponsoring a literary prize, the James Madison Book Award, for the best history written for young people. She was a featured speaker in February at the Association of American Publishers. ajc.com While the book may be "not mentioned in Cheney's biography on the White House Web site", there is this whitehouse.org What I don't understand is how what is not "her best work" is also her "Literary Masterpiece"? But then I often have trouble reconciling various pronouncements from this WH. lurqer