A reflection on ambition and success in 'Tracy Flick Can't Win'
Podcast: NPR's Book of the DayPublished On: Thu Jun 16 2022
Description: You've probably seen it: Reese Witherspoon playing ambitious, throat-cutting Tracy Flick in the 1999 movie Election. It's the film adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name. Now, Perrotta has written a sequel called Tracy Flick Can't Win. In it, we meet Tracy Flick in middle age and just a tad bit away from accomplishing her high school dreams of becoming president of the United States. In an interview with All Things Considered, Perrotta told Sascha Pfiffer that he wanted to revisit this character's story to reflect on ambition, success, and the softening that happens in middle age.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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