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On what might become one of the most significant days in her husband's presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led her to the White House--and the repercussions of a life lived, as she puts it, "almost in opposition to itself."A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown.
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Classical in form, contemporary, contemplative and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Curtis Sittenfeld
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 558
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group, Random House, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781588367532
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