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From Prep to American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld has made a place as contemporary fiction's foremost chronicler in the most popular shelves of the literature world. This time she has turned towards the realm of 'what-if' where she has done an excellent job in jolting down the readers by letting them know, "What would have happened if Hillary Rodham had never agreed to marry Bill Clinton?"
"Delviously clever...Sittenfeld's Hillary is both a player in the Game of Thrones and a romance novel heroine. She is a brilliant badass who has found her voice and knows how to use it. She's whoever she wants to be."-- O: The Oprah Magazine
Named one of the Best Books Of The Year by The New Yorker. NPR. The Washington Post. Marie Claire. Cosmopolitan (UK). Town & Country. New York Post
The novel takes its readers on the life-journey of the two dynamic individuals.
In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she is attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. And then she catches the eye of driven, handsome, and charismatic southerner fellow law student-Bill Clinton. Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced. In the real world, Hillary followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times, although she said no more than once, she eventually accepted and became Hillary Clinton.
But in Curtis Sittenfeld's powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction, Hillary takes a different road. Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage, she endures their devastating breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own trail--One that unfolds in public as well as in private, that involves crossing paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.
With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men. Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, RODHAM is a singular and brilliant reimagining - an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times.
About the Author
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born August 23, 1975, Cincinnati, Ohio) is a best-selling American writer. She is the author of six novels: Prep, the story of students at a Massachusetts prep school; The Man of My Dreams, a coming-of-age novel and an examination of romantic love; American Wife, a fictional story loosely based on the life of First Lady Laura Bush; Sisterland which tells the story of identical twins with psychic powers; Eligible, a modern-day retelling of Pride and Prejudice, and Rodham, an alternate history political novel about the life of Hillary Clinton.
Her collection of short stories 'You Think It, I'll Say It' has been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, of which she was the 2020 guest editor. Her non-fiction has appeared on public radio's 'This American Life' and in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair.
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Rating: 4.2/5
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Publisher: Random House
Publishing Date: May 19, 2020
Edition Language: English
Genre: Political Fiction, Women's Friendship Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
ISBN-10: 0399590919
ISBN-13: 978-0399590917
Pages: 432 (Hardcover)
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