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Campaign Ruby (2010)

by Jessica Rudd(Favorite Author)

3.28 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1921656573 (ISBN13: 9781921656576)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

The Text Publishing Company

review 1: Thoroughly enjoyable, very light entertainment. It's chic lit in a political world ... does it get any better?! I think not. I loved it being set in places I know so well - Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney. I couldn't but it down - started reading it on the plane in Melbourne and finished it 6 hours later as the plane taxied into Mackay airport. Recommended for my girlfriends looking for a fun, entertaining, easy read.
review 2: One has to wonder if this "novel" (it's more an autobiography) would have been published had it been written by someone other than the daughter of the then Prime Minister of Australia.[return]It's not a badly written book. It's just not glimmering with the sort of talent that you seem to need these days to get published. You or i could proba... morebly have written something as clever, given the time and the background.[return]And it is the background that makes this novel stand out. You get the occasional glimpses of her observations of her own father, and the processes that brought him to power. Jessica Rudd was, after all, operating in some capacity similar to Ruby in her father's campaign.[return]The text is notable for the knockabout plot structure, the way that Ruby gets all dolled up in the right shoes, the right dress, the right handbag, and then ends up covered in food, or head down in a toilet. It's these moments of lowgrade cringe that seem to be the powerhouse of the narrative: how will Roo mess this up?[return]The fashion fetishes and embarrassments aside, Rudd also tries (and fails, in the eyes of this reader) to inspire us with the powerful rhetoric of her political characters. You can see the place where the powerful rhetoric is supposed to be, could even underline the sentences if you had to, but it just never works.[return]Call me cynical, but politicians who are too good to be true are just, well, too good to be true. If she was trying to apotheosise her father in this novel, it didn't work out for her, or him.[return]There are, however, some well realised characters in here, Clem being foremost among these. And there's a villain to boo, a hero or two to cheer, a moral crisis or three, and plenty of shoe porn.[return]Will Rudd write the follow-up novel, where Roo helps the new government to overcome the hurdles of changing Australia into a place run by people of vision and principle? I'm not sure she has any background to base such an excursion on, so maybe not. less

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