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2 wrz 2008 · 62,158 ratings7,058 reviews. 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.”
2 wrz 2008 · Kirkus Prize winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
25 lis 2008 · I began American Wife expecting a sharp political satire. I found instead a forensic examination of a woman's psyche. The wife in question is Laura Bush, and it was Curtis Sittenfeld's...
5 sty 2011 · In truth, Curtis Sittenfeld’s third novel is a rich and arresting portrait of an enduring marriage, of the inevitable compromises necessary to reach that longevity, and of the unremitting demands of public life and the price of fame.
About American Wife. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible “Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly
American Wife is rather a sympathetic and delicate look at the life of a likeable and intelligent woman whose early tragedies loom large in her life, distorting not only her view of herself but also of how the world works.
10 lut 2009 · American Wife. by Curtis Sittenfeld. 1. The novel opens and ends with Alice Blackwell wondering if she’s made terrible mistakes. Do you think she has? If so, what are they? 2. Alice’s grandmother passes down her love of reading to Alice. What else do they have in common? What does reading provide for Alice throughout her life? 3.
