Curtis Sittenfeld

SALLY MILZ es guionista de The Night Owls, el late night show con más espectadores de los sábados. Con un par de desamores en su haber, hace tiempo que abandonó la búsqueda del amor y se conformó con encuentros ocasionales, exito profesional y una relacion cercana con su padrastro.Pero cuando Danny Horst se une al grupo no tan exclusivo de hombres del monton que han logrado conquistar mujeres increiblemente bellas y exitosas, Sally canaliza su molestia en un sketch llamado La regla de Danny Horst, burlandose de este fenomeno y subrayando lo improbable que es que a una mujer le pase lo contrario.Aqui es cuando aparece Noah Brewster, una estrella del pop con reputacion de salir con modelos, y el nuevo invitado del programa. Mientras colaboran en un sketch tras otro, ella empieza a preguntarse si en realidad podrian estar saltando chispas. Pero esta no es una comedia romantica; es la vida real. Y en la vida real, alguien como el nunca saldria con alguien como ella ¿verdad?

La adolescencia te prepara para todo... menos para sobrevivir a ella.Si siempre has querido leer El guardián entre el centeno con una chica como protagonista, ¡tienes que conocer a Lee Fiora!«Cómica,

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

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."

his year the book of the summer is going to be Eligible' The Times 'Sheer joy...Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice' Jessie Burton, author of The Miniaturist From the bestselling author of Prep, American Wife and Sisterland comes this brilliant retelling of Austen's classic set in modern day Cincinnati. 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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

La adolescencia te prepara para todo... menos para sobrevivir a ella.Si siempre has querido leer El guardián entre el centeno con una chica como protagonista, átienes que conocer a Lee Fiora!"Cómica, sincera, sorprendentemente sensual y teñida por una mirada muy particular sobre la vida y los corazones rotos en un exclusivo internado de Nueva Inglaterra". Tom Perrotta"La prosa de Curtis Sittenfeld se abre camino con una voz tan firme y rotunda que me creeria cualquier cosa que dijese".Dave EggersCuando su padre la acompaña hasta la entrada del prestigioso internado Ault de Massachusetts, no parece que Lee Fiora añore demasiado a la familia que deja atras en su pequeña ciudad de Indiana, seducida por las brillantes fotografias del elegante folleto promocional del centro: chicos de uniforme delante de vetustos edificios de ladrillo y chicas con falda escocesa y palos de lacrosse sobre un cesped inmaculado. Pero como no tarda en descubrir, Ault es un mundo aparte, habitado por jovenes ricos, hastiados y atractivos que se rigen por sus propios codigos. Tan intimidada como atraida por su deslumbrante entorno, Lee luchara por construir una nueva identidad que le p

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