American Wife

Auteur Curtis Sittenfeld

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ISBN

9780385616744

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Curtis Sittenfeld

Uitgeverij

Transworld Digital

Jaar van uitgifte

2008

Aantal pagina's

576

Waar gaat het over?

In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet; she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage; and, she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed.In Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. "American Wife" is not a novel about politics. It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare.

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