Rodham:
A Novel
by Curtis Sittenfeld
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From
the New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Eligible, a novel
that imagines a deeply compelling what-might-have-been: What if Hillary Rodham
hadn’t married Bill Clinton?
In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a
young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley
commencement speech, she’s attending Yale Law School, and she’s on the
forefront of student activism and the women’s rights movement. And then she
meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student,
Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a
profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has
previously experienced.
In the real world, Hillary
followed Bill back to Arkansas, and he proposed several times; although she
said no more than once, as we all know, she eventually accepted and became
Hillary Clinton.
But in Curtis Sittenfeld’s
powerfully imagined tour-de-force of fiction, Hillary takes a different road.
Feeling doubt about the prospective marriage, she endures their devastating
breakup and leaves Arkansas. Over the next four decades, she blazes her own
trail—one that unfolds in public as well as in private, that involves crossing
paths again (and again) with Bill Clinton, that raises questions about the
tradeoffs all of us must make in building a life.
Brilliantly weaving a riveting
fictional tale into actual historical events, Curtis Sittenfeld delivers an
uncannily astute and witty story for our times. In exploring the loneliness,
moral ambivalence, and iron determination that characterize the quest for
political power, as well as both the exhilaration and painful compromises
demanded of female ambition in a world still run mostly by men, Rodham is a
singular and unforgettable novel.
Product
details
Hardcover : 432
pages
Publisher :
Random House (May 19, 2020)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 0399590919
ISBN-13 : 978-0399590917
Product Dimensions : 6.4 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
