White Houses by Amy Bloom

White Houses by Amy Bloom

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and first friend Lorena Hickok.

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Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, Hick, as she's known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as first friend is an open secret, as are FDR's own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.

From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.

Praise for White Houses

Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away.--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

Vivid and tender . . . Bloom--interweaving fact and fancy--lavishes attention on Hickok], bringing Hick, the novel's narrator and true subject, to radiant life.--O: The Oprah Magazine

Radiant . . . an indelible love story, one propelled not by unlined youth and beauty but by the kind of soul-mate connection even distance, age, and impossible circumstances couldn't dim . . . Bloom's goal is less to relitigate history than to portray the blandly sexless figurehead of First Lady as something the job rarely allows those women to be--a loving, breathing human being. And she does it brilliantly.--Entertainment Weekly

Amy Bloom is the author of the short story collection Come to Me and the book Love Invents Us. Her work has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including The New Yorker, Antaeus, Story, Mirabella, Self, Vogue, and Talk, as well as numerous anthologies in the United States and overseas, including The Best American Short Stories; Prize Stories: The O. The Scribner Anthology of Modern Short Fiction, The Hidden Self: A Century of Short Tales by Women, and The Henry Awards She resides in Connecticut and works as a psychotherapist.

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ISBN 13	9780812985696
ISBN 10	0812985699
Title	White Houses
Author	Amy Bloom
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2018-10-30
Number of pages	240
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.