You Say You Still Want A Revolution?

摘要

Audrey litvinoff's exasperation with the world rises like steam from the pages of Zoee Heller's "The Believers." A hard-core leftist of the old school, she has scant patience for anyone whose philosophies, political or otherwise, allow for more ambiguity than her own. Audrey's not just the book's main character, she's its gravitational force, and the other characters are helplessly fixed in their orbits around her. When a friend suggests Islamic suicide bombers are motivated by their religion, Audrey rolls her eyes. "That's just what the Bush administration wantsyou to believe," she sniffs. We've all sat next to Audrey at a restaurant, listened to her socialist-flavored, conspiracy-laced invective, and silently prayed for her to please shut the hell up.