White Houses 9780812985696 Amy Bloom

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Titel: White Houses
Auteur: Amy Bloom
ISBN: 9780812985696
Conditie: Beetje gebruikt

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women (People)Eleanor Roosevelt and first friend Lorena Hickok.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times San Francisco Chronicle New York Public Library Refinery29 Real Simple

Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelts first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, Hick, as shes known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as first friend is an open secret, as are FDRs own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hicks bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.

From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattans Washington Square, Amy Blooms new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.

Praise for White Houses

Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away.Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

Vivid and tender . . . Bloominterweaving fact and fancylavishes attention on [Hickok], bringing Hick, the novels narrator and true subject, to radiant life.O: The Oprah Magazine

Radiant . . . an indelible love story, one propelled not by unlined youth and beauty but by the kind of soul-mate connection even distance, age, and impossible circumstances couldnt dim . . . Blooms goal is less to relitigate history than to portray the blandly sexless figurehead of First Lady as something the job rarely allows those women to bea loving, breathing human being. And she does it brilliantly.Entertainment Weekly

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