Author: Curtis Sittenfeld
Title: American Wife
Description: Black Swan 2009 Paperback, 640pp. 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. Foxing to the edges of pages. (ISBN: 9780552775540). Good.

Keywords: Fiction9780552775540 9780552775540


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