Bibliograph

American wife, a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld

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American wife, a novel, Curtis Sittenfeld

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

American wife

Responsibility statement

Curtis Sittenfeld

Sub title

a novel

Summary

In 2000, the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the U.S.A. Their time in the White House proves to be heady 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 - that is itself remarkable. Alice describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her courtship with the man who swept her off her feet. And she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed ..

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