![]() ![]() Louis, Missouri Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld is an American writer, the author of several novels and a collection of short stories. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare. Author Bio BirthAug WhereCincinnati, Ohio, USA EducationB.A., Stanford University M.F.A., Iowa Writers' Workshop Currentlylives in St. ![]() It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. American Wife is not a novel about politics. Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. 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 and power - that is itself remarkable. As First Lady Alice Blackwell looks back over her life in Curtis Sittenfelds American Wife: A Novel, she wonders if the choices she has made have jeopardized. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. ![]() Print American Wife: The acclaimed word-of-mouth bestseller ![]()
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