Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 25, 1949
Birthday: August 25
We hear about the successful "Texanisation" of the Republican party. And doesn't Texas sometimes seem to resemble a country like Saudi Arabia, with its great heat, its oil wealth, its brimming houses of worship, and its weekly executions?
source: "Palace of the end" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.
topic: Country, Texas, Oil, Saudi Arabia, Saudis, Houses Of Worship