(Ebook) American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld ISBN 9780812975406, 0812975405

(Ebook) American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld ISBN 9780812975406, 0812975405

“Curtis Sittenfeld is an amazing writer, and American Wife is a brave and moving novel about the intersection of private and public life in America. Ambitious and humble at the same time, Sittenfeld refuses to trivialize or simplify people, whether real or imagined.” – Richard RussoOn what might become one of the most significant days in her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House – and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, “almost in opposition to itself.” When her husband unexpectedly becomes governor and then president, she discovers that she is married to a man she both loves and fundamentally disagrees with – and that her private beliefs increasingly run against her public persona. “What a remarkable (and brave) thing: a compassionate, illuminating, and beautifully rendered portrait of a fictional Republican first lady with a life and husband very much like our actual Republican first lady’s. Curtis Sittenfeld has written a novel as impressive as it is improbable.” – Kurt Andersen In Alice Blackwell, New York Times bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is a gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and the exigencies of fate into a brilliant tapestry–a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare."As the book progresses to more recent and familiar events, she has difficulty enlivening the ins and outs of electioneering and policymaking. (...) Neither character is very likable - Alice weak-willed and martyrlike, Charlie unbearably self-centred - but the novel, Sittenfeld’s most fully realized yet, artfully evokes the painful reverberations of the past."  -  The New Yorker