American Wife

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• White House blues

  All viewers of The West Wing know that the back-stairs acronym for the leader of the free world is Potus but the narrator of this remarkable novel identifies herself to us as Flotus: First Lady of the United States. She's Alice Blackwell, born Lindgr ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• In bed with Dubya

  Two mysteries hover over Curtis Sittenfeld's timely third novel, American Wife, a fictional memoir by a 21st-century First Lady that was rushed out in the US to coincide with the Republican National Congress. The first is how, in our litigious age, s ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  USA - 1970's - 1980's

  Such an in-depth character driven story. Loved the protagonist and how well she is described. Loved it!
  (Apparently this book is about Laura Bush...)

  Characters: Alice Lindgren, Charlie Blackwell

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• English Books
• Others 939 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1410413322
• ISBN-13: 9781410413321
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Pub date: Feb 01, 2009
• Also available as: Paperback

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