Лучшие произведения Кертис Ситтенфельд

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.

A suburban mother of two fantasizes about the downfall of an old friend whose wholesome lifestyle empire may or may not be built on a lie. A high-powered lawyer honeymooning with her husband is caught off guard by the appearance of the girl who tormented her in high school. A shy Ivy League student learns the truth about a classmate’s seemingly enviable life. Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her “astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers’ heads” (The…

---------------------------------------------------------------- ***PRE-ORDER, RODHAM, THE RIVETTING NEW NOVEL BY CURTIS SITTENFELD *** 'My favourite book of the year' KATE ATKINSON ‘Honest, wonderful and smart as hell’ GUARDIAN All I did is marry him. You are the ones who gave him power. Quiet, bookish Alice Blackwell never dreamed of being First Lady. Much less to a President whose politics she doesn’t believe in. O

New York Timesi menuautori Curtis Sittenfeldi sulest ilmunud “Uhkuse ja eelarvamuse” tänapäevases stiilis ümberjutustus on ühtaegu nii austusavaldus Jane Austenile kui ka julge kirjanduslik eksperiment. Soe ja samas vaimukas “Väärt mees”, mis käsitleb soo-, klassi-, armastuse- ja pereprobleeme, on kahekümne esimese sajandi särav, vallatu ja hõrk perekonnalugu. Seesugused Bennetid ja härra Darcy on ühtviisi tuttavlikud ja tundmatud: Liz on ligi neljakümneaastane ajakirjanik, kes elab New Yorgis, nagu ka tema joogatreenerist vanem õde Jane. Isa äkilise haigestumise tõttu sõidavad õed lapsepõlvelinna Cincinnatisse vanematele appi – ja…

'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?

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 life. 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…