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White Houses
Author: Amy Bloom
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Retail Price: | $27.99 |
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ISBN: 9781783781720
Format: Paperback
Published: April 2018
Published By: Granta
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Published: April 2018
Published By: Granta
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Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers.Hidden love in the White House in 1930s and 1940s America, from a master storyteller at the height of her powers.In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hick to friends - a straight-talking reporter from South Dakota, whose passionate relationship with the idealistic, patrician First Lady would shape the rest of their lives.
Told by the indomitable Hick, White Houses is the story of Eleanor and Hick's hidden love, and of Hick's unlikely journey from her dirt-poor childhood to the centre of privilege and power.
From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.
Filled with fascinating back-room politics, the secrets and scandals of the era, and exploring the potency of enduring love, it is an imaginative tour-de-force from a writer of extraordinary and exuberant talent.