Curtis Sittenfeld

This is 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.

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.

Do-Over, one 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.

The Bennet sisters have been summoned from New York City.Liz and Jane are good daughters. Theyve 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 familys BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . .Chip Bingley is not only a charming doctor, hes 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 fathers mounting medical bills, her wayward sisters and Cousin Willie trying to stick his tongue down her throat, it isnt 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.

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 . . .

Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic?

A dazzling, smart and razor-sharp story collection by Curtis Sittenfeld, Sunday Times bestselling author of Eligible 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.

In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise: Life magazine has covered her Wellesley commencement speech, shes attending Yale Law School, and shes on the forefront of student activism and the womens rights movement. And then she meets Bill Clinton. A handsome, charismatic southerner and fellow law student, Bill is already planning his political career. In each other, the two find a profound intellectual, emotional, and physical connection that neither has previously experienced.

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THE AMAZING NEW NOVEL FROM CURTIS SITTENFELD: 'A rollercoaster of modern love and dating' STYLIST'One of my all-time favourite authors. A brilliantly written, funny page-turner, I want to read it all again' PANDORA SYKESA 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.

Curtis Sittenfeld's sparkling debut is set in an American boarding school, a hotbed of privilege, ambition and neurosis, every bit as snobbish and competitive as anything dreamed up on this side of the Atlantic. Lee Fiora is an intelligent, observant fourteen-year-old when her father drops her off at the prestigious Ault School in Massachusetts; she leaves behind her affectionate family in South Bend, Indiana, her head filled with images from the school's glossy brochure, in which boys in sweaters chat in front of old brick buildings, girls hold lacrosse sticks on pristine athletics fields, and everyone sings hymns in chapel. As Lee soon learns, Ault is quite unlike anything she has previously experienced, a self-enclosed world populated by jaded teenagers whose expectations, values and social rituals are utterly unfamiliar to her. At first an observer of, then a participant in the hyper-vigilant, intricately demarcated life of the school, Lee eventually finds her own place in the pecking order - until a single act of spontaneous folly shatters her carefully honed identity. "Smart, witty and sensitive...Any girl who's ever felt like an outsider will be drawn to troubled Lee, a scholarship teen at a posh boarding school" - "InStyle"."An addictive portrait of adolescence - "The OC" meets Donna Tartt's "The Secret History" with flashes of "Clueless"" - "Observer". "Sittenfeld writes with confidence, her dialogue rings true...and her observations range from witty to surprisingly funny, sometimes absurd." - "Herald".

Following her acclaimed debut novel "Prep," Sittenfeld has written a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman's fantasies of family and love with the challenges a

In Prep, Lee Fiora is from a lower middle class family in the Midwest who attends a Massachusetts prep school on a scholarship. The novel is her account of her four years there. It's a world where she never fits in, despite how desperately she might want to. During her years there, she slowly emerges from being someone shrinking into the background and eventually develops a few friends and tries to carve out her place in its social structure. But being accepted as the equal of the wealthy and privileged is an obstacle that can never be overcome, yet fitting in back home seems just as foreign to her. Curtis Sittenfeld's coming-of-age story is one that might make many recall their own high school years and Prep has received mostly positive reviews. The Rocky Mountain News says, "Prep flows like an extended diary entry, and Sittenfeld's brilliant writing sparkles in each turn, hitting the bitter isolation of adolescence spot-on."

On perhaps the most important day of her husbands presidency, Alice looks back on the strange and unlikely path that led her to the White House, and to a decision - both treacherous and long overdue

A versão moderna de Orgulho e Preconceito, o clássico de Jane Austen. A família Bennet está em dificuldades. Para além dos problemas económicos, a frágil saúde do Sr. Bennet obriga as filhas mais vel

Libro estrella en The New York Times, Sin compromiso es una elegante y divertida reescritura en clave moderna de Orgullo y prejuicio.Libro estrella en The New York Times, Sin compromiso es una elegante y divertida reescritura en clave moderna de Orgullo y prejuicio.Nada en el mundo podria haber preparado a Lizzy Bennet, treintañera de buena familia que trabaja en una revista femenina, y a su hermana mayor, Jane, monitora de yoga a punto de cumplir los cuarenta, para el panorama que se encuentran al volver a Cincinnati: la enorme casa de estilo Tudor en la que se criaron se cae a pedazos y toda su familia parece envuelta en una crisis sin solucion. Las hermanas menores, Kitty y Lydia, estan demasiado ocupadas con sus ejercicios de crossfit y sus paleodietas como para buscar trabajo. Mary, la mediana, esta sacandose su tercera carrera on-line y apenas sale de su cuarto. Y la señora Bennet solo piensa en una cosa: como casar a sus hijas. Con la entrada en escena de Chip Bingley, un atractivo medico que ha participado en un reality para buscar pareja, y su amigo, el neurocirujano Fitzwilliam Darcy, la vida de todos los miembros de la familia Bennet dara un giro completamente inesperado...En Sin compromiso, que homenajea y revisa con desenfado la obra maestra de Jane Austen, Sittenfeld lanza una nueva y re...

"Se você precisa de um passatempo inteligente, sofisticado e divertido (quem não precisa?), este livro é para você." Oprah Daily"Uma carta de amor para as comédias românticas... A escrita de Sittenfe