![]() ![]() That book culminated with her boss being elected vice president, sharing a ticket with a charming but ethically challenged Southern governor, while Sammy herself found love in the arms of a Washington Post reporter, after dumping her caddish speechwriter beau. Joyce appeared three years ago in Gore’s first novel, “Sammy’s Hill,” as a staffer working in the offices of Senator Robert Gray (R. Indeed, only the assumption that Gore intends her protagonist to be essentially appealing, and her adventures to be madcap and winning and laugh-out-loud funny, leads me to see this book as an exceedingly tedious comedy of manners rather than a cutting, realistic portrait of a rising young hack. She’s the sort of disingenuous, “What, me ambitious?” climber you never want to share a cab or a greenroom with, or get trapped having drinks with at a Capitol Hill bar. ![]() ![]() As conceived by Kristin Gore, the daughter of a certain former vice president, Sammy is at once self-effacing and self-important, frivolous and pedantic, furiously partisan and convinced of her own unbiased high-mindedness. chick-lit saga - but she’s certainly an authentic Washington type. Say what you will about Samantha Joyce, the 20-something health policy adviser who rides again in “Sammy’s House” - the second installment in what threatens to become a long-running D.C. ![]()
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