Curtis Sittenfeld
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Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends.
In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce.
In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion.
Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice.
Vicces-romantikus
Sally Milz jeleneteket ír Az Éjjeli Baglyok című szombat esti tévéműsor számára. Párszor már összetörték a szívét, egy ideje nem keresi a szerelmet - időnként kavar valakivel, sikeres a munkájában, a mostohaapjával szoros kapcsolatot ápol. Ez így együtt elég.
Sally barátja és munkatársa, Danny Horst randizni kezd egy glamúros színésznővel, ezáltal bekerül a nem túl hízelgő klubba, amelyet tehetséges, de átlagos kinézetű, sőt kicsit béna pasik alkotnak, akik jártak már kivételesen gyönyörű és magasan kvalifikált nővel. Sallyt ez bosszantja, úgyhogy megírja A Danny Horst szabály című jelenetet, ami ebből a jelenségből csinál viccet - jelezve, milyen valószínűtlen, hogy fordított viszonylatban létrejöjjön ez a felállás: ahol a férfi glamúros és a nő átlagos.
Itt jön a képbe Noah Brewster, a sármos popsztár, akiről köztudott, hogy modellekkel szokott randizni. Ezen a héten fellép a műsorban, ráadásul ő lesz a műsorvezető is. Sally egészen odavan a férfitól, és egyből megtalálják a közös hangot - több jeleneten is együtt dolgoznak. Sally eltűnődik, hogy ezek itt nem szikrák-e kettejük között. Dehát ez nem romkom, ez a valóság. Márpedig a valóságban egy ilyen pasi soha nem randizna egy magafajta nővel, nem igaz?
Vicces-romantikus
New York Times BestsellerReese Witherspoon könyvklubjaPOPSUGAR – az év könyveiSally Milz jeleneteket ír Az Éjjeli Baglyok című szombat esti tévéműsor számára. Párszor már összetörték a szívét, egy ideje nem keresi a szerelmet – időnként kavar valakivel, sikeres a munkájában, a mostohaapjával szoros kapcsolatot ápol. Ez így együtt elég. Sally barátja és munkatársa, Danny Horst randizni kezd egy glamúros színésznővel, ezáltal bekerül a nem túl hízelgő klubba, amelyet tehetséges, de átlagos kinézetű, sőt kicsit béna pasik alkotnak, akik jártak már kivételesen gyönyörű és magasan kvalifikált nővel. Sallyt ez bosszantja, úgyhogy megírja A Danny Horst szabály című jelenetet, ami ebből a jelenségből csinál viccet – jelezve, milyen valószínűtlen, hogy fordított viszonylatban létrejöjjön ez a felállás: ahol a férfi glamúros és a nő átlagos. Itt jön a képbe Noah Brewster, a sármos popsztár, akiről köztudott, hogy modellekkel szokott randizni. Ezen a héten fellép a műsorban, ráadásul ő lesz a műsorvezető is. Sally egészen odavan a férfitól, és egyből megtalálják a közös hangot – több jeleneten is együtt dolgoznak. Sally eltűnődik, hogy ezek itt nem szikrák-e kettejük között. Dehát ez nem romkom, ez a valóság. Márpedig a valóságban egy ilyen pasi soha nem randizna egy magafajta nővel, nem igaz? „cseles, kifinomult, élvezetes” – Oprah Daily„tele szédületes dumákkal – a kémia egyszerűen sistergő” – People„Ha valaha is be akartál jutni a Saturday Night Live backstage-jébe, akkor ez a könyv neked való.” – Good Morning America
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Rodham
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.
Help Yourself
Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender and celebrity.
Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary.
Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory.
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You Think It, Ill Say It
A dazzling, smart and razor-sharp story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, Sunday Times bestselling author of Rodham and American Wife.
The theme that unites these stories is how even the cleverest people tend to misread others, and how much we all deceive ourselves.
Sharp and tender, funny and wise, they show Sittenfeld's knack for creating real, believable characters that spring off the page, while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit.
'DO-OVER', ONE OF THE STORIES IN THIS COLLECTION, WAS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SUNDAY TIMES EFG SHORT STORY AWARD.
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`The book of the summer' The Times'Sheer joy ... Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' Jessie Burton, author of The MiniaturistFor sisters Liz and Jane, coming home to suburban Cincinnati means being paraded at the Lucas family's BBQ, where burgers are served alongside the eligible men. But it's difficult to focus on re-booting their love lives when the family's mock-Tudor house starts to crumble around them. Yet as their mother reminds them, it's not every day you meet a pair of handsome single doctors . . .
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SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book of the summer' The Times 'Sheer joy...Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City. Liz and Jane are good daughters. They've come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development. Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon enough they are being berated for their single status, their only respite the early morning runs they escape on together. For two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family's BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men ...Chip Bingley is not only a charming doctor, he's a reality TV star too. But Chip's friend, haughty neurosurgeon Fitzwilliam Darcy, can barely stomach Cincinnati or its inhabitants. Jane is entranced by Chip; Liz, sceptical of Darcy. As Liz is consumed by her father's mounting medical bills, her wayward sisters and Cousin Willie trying to stick his tongue down her throat, it isn't only the local chilli that will leave a bad aftertaste. But where there are hearts that beat and mothers that push, the mysterious course of love will resolve itself in the most entertaining and unlikely of ways. And from the hand of Curtis Sittenfeld, Pride & Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world singing out with hilarity and truth.
Prep
A stunning novel in the great tradition of American coming-of-age novels from Catcher in the Rye to The Secret History. Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find – and maintain – her place in the pecking order.
Romantic Comedy
A TV script writer thinks she's over romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions: a humorous, subversive and tender-hearted novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rodham, American Wife and Prep.
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Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy...
With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love.
But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involvded with accomplished, beautiful women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this 'social rule'.
The reverse never happens for a woman.
Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn't a romantic comedy - it's real life. Would someone like him ever date someone like her?
Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says.
It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best.
Rodham - The Sunday Times Bestseller
WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE?
'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.
The rest, as they say, isn't history. 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. Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, RODHAM is a brilliant reimagining - an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times.
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You Think It, I'll Say It - Stories
'Do-Over, on of the stories in this dazzling first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld,is shortlisted for the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award.
In `The World Has Many Butterflies', a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I'll say it, putting into words the bitchy things she guesses he's thinking about their fellow guests. But she is in for a shock when, in time, she finds out what was really in his mind. `The Nominee' sees Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, confessing her surprising true feelings about a woman journalist she has sparred with over the years. In `Gender Studies', a visiting academic sleeps with her taxi driver, for what turns out to be all the wrong reasons.
The theme that unites these stories is how even the cleverest people tend to misread others, and how much we all deceive ourselves. Sharp and tender, funny and wise, they show Sittenfeld's knack for creating real, believable characters that spring off the page, while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit.
Sisterland (Ikerország)
Kate és Violet már gyerekkorukban tisztában voltak azzal, hogy mások, mint a többiek, és nem csupán azért, mert egypetéjű ikrek. Velük született különleges képességük egyfajta megérzés, természetfeletti tudás más emberek titkairól és a jövőbeli történésekről.
Még mindig szoros kapcsolatuk ellenére mostanra teljesen más vágányon fut az életük. Vi felvállalva különcségét, hivatásos médiumként tevékenykedik, Kate pedig a kertvárosi háziasszonyok csendes hétköznapi életét éli tudós férjével és két kicsi gyerekkel az oldalán.
Amikor az éjszaka közepén egy kisebb földrengés fölriasztja a családot álmából, Kate élete megállíthatatlanul megindul a változás útján. Vi biztos benne, hogy nemsokára újabb, pusztítóbb rengés következik, és ezt meg is osztja a nyilvánossággal. Kate éppúgy fél attól, hogy testvére jóslata kínos helyzetbe hozza, mint attól, hogy igaznak bizonyul. A katasztrófa kijelölt dátumának közeledtével egyre inkább rákényszerül, hogy őszintén szembenézzen valódi önmagával, minden képességével, meggyőződésével és mindazzal, amit régóta szőnyeg alá söpört.
American wife
Alice Lindgrenová, slušné dievča z malomestského prostredia, nemá ani poňatia o tom, že jedného dňa skončí v Bielom dome ako prvá dáma. Pokojný rodinný život sedemnásťročnej Alice narušila tragická nehoda a tá navždy zmenila smerovanie jej života. O viac ako desaťročie neskôr, keď ju zvádza charizmatický syn z mocnej republikánskej rodiny, sa ocitá vo svete privilégií a vysokej politiky. A keď sa jej manžel nečakane stane prezidentom, Alice si uvedomí, že je vydatá za muža, ktorého súčasne miluje a nenávidí kvôli jeho rozhodnutiam. Svoje vnútorné pocity musí Alice starostlivo skrývať, pretože pred očami celého sveta musí preukazovať lojalitu vzornej prvej dámy. A keď jej muž vstupuje do druhého volebného obdobia, Alice musí vyriešiť tento nekonečný vnútorný rozpor a čeliť takmer bezvýchodiskovej životnej situácii.
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Sisterland
For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. Violet is single, and lives a much more flamboyant and eccentric existence. Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake in the St Louis area where they live. As the day Violet has announced for the earthquake draws nearer, Kate must attempt to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister, and to face truths about herself she has long tried to deny.
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