Books
July, 1977
The ongoing saga of the Washington novel moves a step further into realism with nonfiction writer Aaron Latham's first trip into fiction, Orchids for Mother (Little, Brown). Enough of heroic super-bureaucrats slaying CIA monsters; Here the monsters are reduced to scale; viz., life-size--and almost win. So realistic is this novel that the public figures involved--Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Elliot Richardson, even the author's own wife, Lesley Stahl--are called by their real names. Latham's a...
