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Rodham
- Author
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrator
- Carrington MacDuffie
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 19 May 2020
- Run Time
- 13 hours 59 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Alternative history fiction, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
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WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE?
‘Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers.’ Kate Atkinson
‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.
Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader— and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No.
The rest, as they say, isn’t history. How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?
With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men.
Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, RODHAM is a brilliant reimagining – an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times.
© Curtis Sittenfeld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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This addictive novel is the SLIDING DOORS of American politics. Gripping
STYLIST
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A lot of fun. A wonderful, sad dream of what might have happened
GUARDIAN
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An explosive new book
GRAZIA
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Sittenfeld's RODHAM offers the catharsis of uncomplicated regret
THE NEW YORKER
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While telling a compelling story, RODHAM provides an insightful analysis of the function of sexim in our political discourse. Sittenfeld is at her wittiest when recreating the men who dominate American politics
WASHINGTON POST
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A nauseating, moving, morally suggestive, technically brilliant book that made me think more than any in recent memory about the aims and limits of fiction
NPR
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Hugely enjoyable
WALL STREET JOURNAL
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This isn't just fiction as fantasy, this is fiction as therapy. A serious work of literary fiction designed to rally the spirits of liberal readers
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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‘An ingenious yet plausible glimpse of an alternative reality, and so involving that it occasionally comes as a shock to realise that there is a different reality, and we are living in it’
THE SPECTATOR
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‘By tilting history on its side, Sittenfeld makes Hillary seem a fresh character and remarkably sympathetic’
EVENING STANDARD
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Details
- Author
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- Narrator
- Carrington MacDuffie
- Duration
- 13 hours 59 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 May 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473584969
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Alternative history fiction, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Narrative theme: politics / economics, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by PenguinWHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE?‘Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers.’ Kate Atkinson‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader— and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No.The rest, as they say, isn’t history. How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men. Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, RODHAM is a brilliant reimagining – an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times.© Curtis Sittenfeld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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