How To Use Roman a clef In A Sentence

• If you don't want a "Nanny Diaries"-esque roman a clef surfacing, it may cost you. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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• Roman a clef say: ro-man' ah clay is French for "we say we're making this all up but it's really true now guess who they are". Do you have a square to spare...of writing paper?
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• The author of Blue Skies, No Candy, a roman a clef about her adventurous private life, noted that Orsini's reflected the sexual revolution raging in America in the '70s. Howard Kissel: Orsini's
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• Since Las tierras flacas deals with the author's native Los Altos, while Al filo del agua is centered in the Bajío, a rich agricultural basin between Guadalajara and Mexico City, I consider the former to be Yañez's true roman à clef. Agustin Yañez: the engaged man (1904–1980)
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• Eighteen Acres" (the title refers to the size of the White House grounds) isn't precisely a roman a clef -- there are, for one thing, no characters who suggest George or Laura Bush or Dick Cheney -- but Wallace does seem to be having a bit of sport with two of her erstwhile colleagues. Review of "Eighteen Acres," a political thriller by Nicolle Wallace
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