{"product_id":"rodham-9780552776608","title":"Rodham","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBY THE \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eROMANTIC COMEDY, AMERICAN WIFE and PREP\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003eThis addictive novel is the \u003ci\u003eSLIDING DOORS\u003c\/i\u003e of American politics. Gripping'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e''\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eStartlingly good. One of my favourite writers'' \u003c\/b\u003eKATE ATKINSON\u003cbr\u003e----------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Awfully opinionated for a girl'' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmart, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis addictive novel is the \u003ci\u003eSLIDING DOORS\u003c\/i\u003e of American politics. Gripping\u003c\/b\u003e * STYLIST *\u003cbr\u003eA lot of fun. A wonderful, sad dream of what might have happened * GUARDIAN *\u003cbr\u003eAn explosive new book * GRAZIA *\u003cbr\u003eSittenfeld's RODHAM offers the catharsis of uncomplicated regret * THE NEW YORKER *\u003cbr\u003eWhile 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 *\u003cbr\u003eA 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 *\u003cbr\u003eHugely enjoyable * WALL STREET JOURNAL *\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An \u003cb\u003eingenious\u003c\/b\u003e yet plausible glimpse of an alternative reality, and so \u003cb\u003einvolving\u003c\/b\u003e that it occasionally comes as a shock to realise that there is a different reality, and we are living in it’\u003c\/p\u003e * THE SPECTATOR *\u003cbr\u003e‘By tilting history on its side, Sittenfeld makes Hillary seem a \u003cb\u003efresh\u003c\/b\u003e character and remarkably \u003cb\u003esympathetic’\u003c\/b\u003e * EVENING STANDARD *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘\u003c\/i\u003eRODHAM\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the mysterious territory between the inner and outer lives of a person who has long been a source of fascination, adulation and loathing’ * FINANCIAL TIMES *\u003cbr\u003e‘Getting inside a living person’s head sounds like a colossally bad idea, but Sittenfeld makes it convincing here, just as she did with a character based on First Lady Laura Bush in her 2008 novel, AMERICAN WIFE’ * BBC CULTURE *\u003cbr\u003eDeviously clever . . . Sittenfeld’s Hillary is both a player in the Game of Thrones and a romance novel heroine. She’s a brilliant badass who has found her voice and knows how to use it. She’s whoever she wants to be * THE OPRAH MAGAZINE *\u003cbr\u003eAs Hillary finds her groove, so the momentum and entertainment builds, as does your admiration for how ingeniously and plausibly Sittenfeld has re-written the script * DAILY MAIL *\u003cbr\u003eA counterfactual novel ... throbs with energy * TLS *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003efascinating glimpse\u003c\/b\u003e into an alternative future * DAILY MIRROR *\u003cbr\u003ePacy... plenty of sex and gossip - and a cameo from a certain yellow-haired, orange-faced president-to-be... ripe for TV adaptation * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *\u003cbr\u003eA brilliantly smart re-imagining * WOMAN AND HOME *\u003cbr\u003eSittenfeld's writing is so fine, her characters so vivid, her empathy so profound that she manages to absorb the reader on a level that transcends partisanship. In 2020, that was a remarkable achievement and an enormous gift to her readers * THE NEW YORKER *\u003cbr\u003eIt ends up being a love letter to a type: the female intellectual, who is given none of the licence of her less talented male peers. At the end, i found myself saying Oh My God * OBSERVER *\u003cbr\u003eA triumphant feminist reinvention. Sittenfeld is the bard of presidential female adjacents * VOGUE *\u003cbr\u003eRODHAM is wide- ranging political anthropology, concerned not so much with what makes Hillary tick as it is with the culture around her and how she might have shaped events, and been shaped by them, if the pieces of reality's jigsaw were rearranged just so. It's stippled with clever mischief * NEW YORK TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eA smartly structured character study and a stay- up- all- night plot . . . A captivating and durable story containing rooms within rooms. RODHAM turns into a high- speed bildungsroman about a woman of formidable intellect and self- insight. * THE LOS ANGELES TIMES *\u003cbr\u003eIt's the genius of Sittenfeld's prose that we come to understand this ambivalence,as well as the deep conflicts in this complicated character. In the longing and loneliness, the anger as well as ambition, this Hillary makes RODHAM a compelling portrait of a future that might have been. * THE BOSTON GLOBE *\u003cbr\u003eTantalizing . . . part thought experiment, part wish- fulfillment fantasy . . . delectably discussable, a book tailor- made for book clubs. * USA TODAY *\u003cbr\u003eWildly compelling . . . What RODHAM is interested in is examining what feminine ambition looks like when it is untethered from a man. . . . Sittenfeld is free to invent, and the reality she builds is deliciously dishy. * VOX *\u003cbr\u003eThought-provoking and compelling * SUNDAY EXPRESS *\u003cbr\u003eA moving feat of feminist and novelistic imagination * THE TABLET *","brand":"Transworld Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738395554135,"sku":"9780552776608","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780552776608.jpg?v=1720047856","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rodham-9780552776608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}