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AMERICAN WIFE by SITTENFELD CURTIS
Category: Fiction
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." A kind, bookish only child born in the 1 ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction | Series: Random House Reader's Circle
A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end up in the White House, married to the president. In her small Wisconsin hometown, she learns the virtues of politeness, but a tragic accident when she is seventeen shatters her identity and changes the tra ...Show more
American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest wh ...Show more
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book of the summer' The Times 'Sheer joy... Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City. Liz and Jane are good daughters. They've come ho ...Show more
Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
'Sheer joy...Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist From the bestselling author of Prep, American Wife and Sisterland comes this brilliant retelling of Austen's classic set in modern day Cincinnati. The Bennet sisters have been summoned from N ...Show more
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, "Eligible" tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. This version of the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy is one that you have and haven t met bef ...Show more
Eligible A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Sittenfeld Curtis
Category: General Fiction
Eligible A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK) This version of the Ben ...Show more
Help Yourself by Curtis Sittenfeld
Category: Fiction
'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINESittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, env ...Show more
MAN OF MY DREAMS by SITTENFELD CURTIS
Category: Fiction
After the breakup of her parents' marriage, teenage Hannah Gavener is shipped off to live with a Philadelphia aunt. Feeling like the divorce refugee that she is, Hannah struggles through her insecurities, seemingly content to live in the shadow of her hip, gorgeous cousin Fig. Later, in sessions with he ...Show more