Rodham
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'This addictive novel is the SLIDING DOORS of American politics. Gripping' Stylist
'Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers' KATE ATKINSON
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'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.
Smart, 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.
How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?
With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men.
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'A lot of fun. A wonderful sad dream of what might have happened' Guardian
'It 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
'An explosive new book' Grazia
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We’re all products of particular circumstances, of times and places and ways of thinking, but our minds and hearts can be opened. I loved the first chapter. The rest of the book went downhill. When I read the blurb for the first time, I got excited about Rodham. Having read the book, it was an awkward piece of fanfiction about living people. And I HATE fanfictions about real people, that’s a line you shouldn’t cross. I usually do not mind sex scenes, but reading them about a real life politician… it just made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. And then the chapters about the 2016 election… Hillary asking Trump to run for president, Trump endorsing her.. it just rubbed me the wrong way. I know it is a fictional book but it just felt wrong because it implied that Bill Clinton is a worse person than Trump. The book was quite dull and Hillary was a one-dimensional character. While I see Hillary Clinton as a famous feminist, this book wasn’t the feminist story I expected it to be.
Description
'This addictive novel is the SLIDING DOORS of American politics. Gripping' Stylist
'Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers' KATE ATKINSON
----------------------
'Awfully opinionated for a girl' is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb.
Smart, 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.
How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton?
With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men.
_____________
'A lot of fun. A wonderful sad dream of what might have happened' Guardian
'It 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
'An explosive new book' Grazia
Book Information
Posts
We’re all products of particular circumstances, of times and places and ways of thinking, but our minds and hearts can be opened. I loved the first chapter. The rest of the book went downhill. When I read the blurb for the first time, I got excited about Rodham. Having read the book, it was an awkward piece of fanfiction about living people. And I HATE fanfictions about real people, that’s a line you shouldn’t cross. I usually do not mind sex scenes, but reading them about a real life politician… it just made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. And then the chapters about the 2016 election… Hillary asking Trump to run for president, Trump endorsing her.. it just rubbed me the wrong way. I know it is a fictional book but it just felt wrong because it implied that Bill Clinton is a worse person than Trump. The book was quite dull and Hillary was a one-dimensional character. While I see Hillary Clinton as a famous feminist, this book wasn’t the feminist story I expected it to be.