Granny's affair with Dr Wycombe, an eminent female surgeon, awakens Alice to a more liberated world. Her dull surroundings are enlivened by her witty and outspoken grandmother. Studious and well-behaved, she's reared on caution and responsibility. In Alice Blackwell, New York Times bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. Her nonfiction has been published widely, including in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Glamour, and broadcast on public radio’s This American. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. Curtis Sittenfeld is the bestselling author of the novels Prep, The Man of My Dreams, American Wife, and Sisterland, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. Random, 26 (576pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-6475-5 Sittenfeld tracks, in her uneven third novel, the life of bookish, nave. Her realist style is fluid and first-person-narrative compelling.Īlice is a small-town only child raised in a modest household by devoted parents. Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, Ill Say It. American Wife BUY THIS BOOK American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld. Sittenfeld's characters are painfully, sensually, infuriatingly alive. A children's librarian from Wisconsin, Alice marries rich alcoholic wastrel Charlie Blackwell, who astounds everyone by first becoming "born again", then US President. The wife in question is Laura Bush, and it was Curtis Sittenfeld's inspired idea to cast the First Lady as Alice Blackwell, her heroine.
I found instead a forensic examination of a woman's psyche. I began American Wife expecting a sharp political satire.
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