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- Duluth
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| # | Date | Publisher | Binding | Cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1983-00-00 |  |
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Spoofing just about everything imaginable, from motherhood to television, Gore Vidal's burlesque is not about the real Duluth, but a bizarre sort of Everytown, U.S.A., with swamps, deserts, and both palm trees and snow. When two women perish in a snowdrift, one is reborn in the popular television series Duluth, and the other finds herself in the "Hyatt Regency" romance novel Rogue Duke. Meanwhile, police lieutenant (and strip-search enthusiast) Darlene Ecks terrorizes a barrio full of illegal Mexicans and zealously pursues black Big John (drug dealer, master criminal, and her sometime lover). Duluth's mayor plumbs the mysteries of a swamped (literally) spaceship, and a battle is waged between two competing Betty Grable biographers.