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I 1971 er Hillary Rodham fra Chicago en ung kvinde med en lovende fremtid: Life Magazine dækker hendes afgangstale fra det prestigiøse Wellesley College, hun starter på Yale og er frontkvinde i bevægelsen for kvinders rettigheder. Og så møder hun Bill Clinton. En smuk og karismatisk fyr fra Sydstaterne, der som hun studerer jura. Bill lægger allerede planer for sin politiske karriere. De bliver kærester, og oplever en dyb samhørighed både intellektuelt, fysisk og følelsesmæssigt. Men da Bill frier til hende, siger Hillary kategorisk nej. Hvad ville der være sket for dem begge, for USA og for verden, hvis Hillary Rodham virkelig havde afvist Bill Clinton?Rodham er en fiktiv og forrygende fortælling om en kvinde, vi alle synes vi kender. Med et skarpt og varmt blik udforsker Curtis Sittenfeld ensomheden, jernviljen og de smertelige kompromisser i Hillarys jagt på den politiske magt i en verden styret af mænd.
Brought to you by Penguin. Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender dynamics and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary. Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye, as her characters stagger from awkwardness, to humiliation and, if they're lucky, to reconciliation. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory. Praise for CURTIS SITTENFELD:'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINE'You won't want these stories to end' REESE WITHERSPOON'Perfect miniatures in deadpan prose' GUARDIAN'Clear-eyed and compulsive' MAIL ON SUNDAY (c) Curtis Sittenfeld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD: 'Do-Over', one of the stories in this dazzling, smart and razor-sharp first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, Sunday Times bestselling author of Eligible and American Wife.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is Pride and Prejudice 2.0 and I must confess, I liked it more than the original' STYLIST'Bold and brilliant' GLAMOUR'Sheer joy... Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' JESSIE BURTON, author of The MiniaturistLiz and Jane Bennet are good daughters. They've come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development.Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status - and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family's BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . .In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the much-loved classic Pride and Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world, singing out with hilarity and truth.__________________________________________________Praise for ELIGIBLE:'If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it'Elle'These days, if Curtis Sittenfeld writes it, I read it' Judy Blume'Eligible has all the charm, wit and romance of Pride & Prejudice...an absolute delight' Red'Dazzling'Woman and Home'Such a feast of a book' Nigella Lawson'Not since "e;Clueless,"e; has Austen been so delightedly interpreted' New York Times
BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER_______________________________-Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be.
Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, and girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields.
And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic?_______Readers love THE MAN OF MY DREAMS:*****'I love everything Curtis Sittenfeld writes and this was no exception.
On perhaps the most important day of her husband's presidency, Alice looks back on the strange and unlikely path that led her to the White House, and to a decision - both treacherous and long overdue - that could jeopardise everything.
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