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American Wife par Curtis Sittenfeld (2009, couverture rigide, grand type / gros caractères...
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Numéro de l'objet eBay :166219937078
Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9781410413321
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- American Wife
- Features
- Large Type
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General, Coming of Age
- Number of Pages
- 900 Pages
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Thorndike Press
ISBN-10
1410413322
ISBN-13
9781410413321
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71145317
Product Key Features
Publication Year
2009
Book Title
American Wife
Topic
General, Coming of Age
Number of Pages
900 Pages
Language
English
Features
Large Type
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Edition Description
Large Type / large print edition
Synopsis
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 House-and 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 seek-one 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 privatebeliefs 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 tapestry-a 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.
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- b***0 (329)- Évaluation laissée par l'acheteur.Dernier moisAchat vérifiéTrès bonne transaction. Mais le livre est envoyé juste dans une simple enveloppe plastique sans aucune protection!
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