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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- See Listing Title
- Features
- Abridged
- ISBN
- 9780739323861
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- American Wife
- Publisher
- Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, General, Books & Libraries
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On 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 Houseand the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, "almost in opposition to itself." A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown. But a tragic accident when she was seventeen shattered her identity and made her understand the fragility of life and the tenuousness of luck. So more than a decade later, when she met boisterous, charismatic Charlie Blackwell, she hardly gave him a second look: She was serious and thoughtful, and he would rather crack a joke than offer a real insight; he was the wealthy son of a bastion family of the Republican party, and she was a school librarian and registered Democrat. Comfortable in her quiet and unassuming life, she felt inured to his charms. And then, much to her surprise, Alice fell for Charlie. As Alice learns to make her way amid the clannish energy and smug confidence of the Blackwell family, navigating the strange rituals of their country club and summer estate, she remains uneasy with her newfound good fortune. And when Charlie eventually becomes President, Alice is thrust into a position she did not seekone of power and influence, privilege and responsibility. As Charlie's tumultuous and controversial second term in the White House wears on, Alice must face contradictions years in the making: How can she both love and fundamentally disagree with her husband? How complicit has she been in the trajectory of her own life? What should she do when her private beliefs run against her public persona? 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 tapestrya novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare. Praise for American Wife "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 Russo "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 From the Hardcover edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Audio Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0739323865
ISBN-13
9780739323861
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65601107
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Wife
Topic
Contemporary Women, General, Books & Libraries
Publication Year
2008
Language
English
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Fiction
Format
Compact Disc
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2in.
Item Length
6.3in.
Item Width
5.1in.
Item Weight
8.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A well-researched book that imagines what lies behind that placid façade of the first lady…Ms. Sittenfeld was not out to sensationalize but to sympathize. Maureen Dowd,The New York Times "Brilliant…[A] triumph…Curtis Sittenfeld has provided a plausible secret history of an American embarrassment and a grand entertainment." Joe Klein, Time Magazine "A smart and sophisticated portrait of a high-profile political wife…Sittenfeld has an astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads." Connie Schultz,Washington Post Book World "Sittenfeld boldly imagines the inner life of a first lady…an intimate and daring story…American Wife is a vicarious experience, an up-close portrait of the interior life of a very complicated woman…cinematic." USA Today "The novel, Sittenfeld's most fully realized yet, artfully evokes the painful reverberations of the past." New Yorker "Compelling...enormously sympathetic...Sittenfeld's remarkable gifts as a storyteller draw you back into the fictional world of Alice Blackwell. She writes in the sharp, realistic tradition of Philip Roth and Richard Fordclear, unpretentious prose; metaphors so spot-on you barely notice them. Sittenfeld may have lifted the set pieces from a real woman's life, but in the process she has created a wise and insightful character who is entirely her own." Time Out New York "Ambitious…Sittenfeld installs herself deep within the psyche of the tight-lipped wife of the president and emerges with an evenhanded, compassionate look at her mind and heart…powerfully intimate. Grade: A" Washington Post "A masterful highbrow-lowbrow mash-up that satisfies as ass-kicking literary fiction and juicy gossip simultaneously." Radar "WithAmerican Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld has deftly crossed an extraordinarily high wire…I readAmerican Wifein just two or three delicious sittings, struck by the granular clarity of the author's descriptions and the down-to-earth believability of the story, bewitched by the charming, frustrating woman at the center of it: Laura Bush." - Ana Marie Cox,The New York Observer "Curtis Sittenfeld is one of our best contemporary chroniclers of class and caste… Sittenfeld imagines this couple so deliciously and so plausibly… Curtis Sittenfeld invents a deep, messy, sympathetic life for a public person whose surface is all we'll ever know." - St Petersburg Times "Immensely readable. It's a nuanced portrait of a woman in a singularly fascinating position." - Cleveland Plain Dealer "A broad, deep and utterly convincing account…a portrait of a woman and a marriage that also brings the reader as close to the probable essence of the outgoing president as any other novelist, or any biographer, is likely to get." - Portland Oregonian "We love Sittenfeld. We love her wry, razor-sharp observations. We love her funny, straightforward honesty…[American Wife] is an empathetic, fascinating, and gorgeously written story about a 30-year marriage. We devoured it in one night." - Boston Magazine "Endearin
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
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Abridged Edition
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