Rodham: A Novel
von Curtis Sittenfeld
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of American Wife and Eligible . . . He proposed. She said no. And it changed her life forever.“A deviously clever what if.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Immersive, escapist.”—Good Morning America“Ingenious.”—The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York PostIn 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.
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Rodham: A Novel
von Curtis Sittenfeld
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of American Wife and Eligible . . . He proposed. She said no. And it changed her life forever.“A deviously clever what if.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Immersive, escapist.”—Good Morning America“Ingenious.”—The New York TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • The Washington Post • Marie Claire • Cosmopolitan (UK) • Town & Country • New York PostIn 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.
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Rezension von CharI absolutely loved this. This book fictionalizes Hillary Clinton‘s life had she not married Bill Clinton. The premise is extremely intriguing and the realization in this novel done brilliantly. We follow Hillary from her early years as a college student at Wellesley, to Yale Law School, where she still meets and falls in love with Bill, to Arkansas with him, and back to Chicago and finally Washington. We span >40 years with her. The story is not told chronologically. We switch e.g. back and forth between 2015 and 1992. There is so much in this book that spoke to me and catered to my interests: universities in the US and their orbit, life in politics, public administration and law-related topics, what it is like to be a woman in politics/law/the public eye. We also get both a beautiful and devastating love story. I did a lot of googling and fact checking whilst reading - I liked this because I learned a lot about the Clinton’s even though I was reading a novel. Honestly, factual or historical fiction is one of my favorite genres. A lot in the book is facts, up to a certain point where fictional Hillary’s life diverges from real-Hillary (after the proposal she declined in the novel) and then we have the glorious alternative universe that we get to see unravel in the novel: Think Bill Clinton as a Silicon Valley billionaire in sex orgies, Trump endorsing Hillary - most importantly Hillary on HER path from the get go, a trailblazer for women and a very different 2016 presidential election outcome. I can’t say I am an admirer or fan of the real Hillary but that also doesn’t matter when reading this book because the Hillary in the book is a fictional character. It is a novel after all. Sittenfeld‘s Hillary is - and this was refreshing - not perfect. She is an idealist but she is also an opportunist. She is a feminist but she is a white feminist failing black women. She is altruistic but also has an ego. The writing was great. Hillarys‘s voice (the book is written in the first person singular) that Sittenfeld constructed worked well for me. The book was sometimes a page-turner, sometimes many pages were filled with mundane yet beautiful details and observations of life and humans. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Definitely also a Literat bookclub worthy book. My edition includes book club questions at the end as well as an interview with the author. Really enjoyed that as well. Thanks again to my GR friend Ron who reviewed this book and whose quote from his Washington Post Review is also featured on the book’s cover!! Your reviews make me find so many interesting and unique books.