Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the author of American Wife and Eligible . . . He proposed. She said no. And it changed her life forever.
 
"A deviously clever what if."--O: The Oprah Magazine
"Immersive, escapist."--Good Morning America
"Ingenious."--The New York Times

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

In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, 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, as we all know, 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.
 
Brilliantly weaving a riveting fictional tale into actual historical events, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness, moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men, Rodham is a singular and unforgettable novel.

Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, and Sisterland are among Curtis Sittenfeld's best-selling novels, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Glamour, among other publications, and has been broadcast on public radio's This American Life. She was born in Cincinnati and now resides in St. Louis with her family.

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ISBN 13	9780399590931
ISBN 10	0399590935
Title	Rodham
Author	Curtis Sittenfeld
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2021-06-01
Number of pages	464
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