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Robb Forman Dew - Being Polite To Hitler, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Being Polite To Hitler

Av Robb Forman Dew

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After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes she is truly weary of her routine. But how, at 51, to establish a separate identity? Her newfound freedom may not sit so well with the rest of the Scofields, who operate strictly within the confines of polite Midwestern values. They'd be polite to Hitler if need be. But underneath the façade, private triumphs and tragedies - including struggles with alcoholism and illicit affairs - simmer, and Agnes finds herself becoming even more entangled in the family web. BEING POLITE TO HITLER is a richly wrought portrait of a woman coming into her own in the middle of her life and a family that experiences passions, joys, and grief against the backdrop of the post-WWII era.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-12-01
  • Mått: 140 x 209 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 290 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN: 9780316018753
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Robb Forman Dew is the author of several novels inc. Dales loves Sophie to Death, for which she received the National Book Award. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband, who is professor of history at Williams College and the author of several books of Southern history.

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"A remarkable achievement, a vividly detailed and deeply textured mural of a century of American life....StartFragmentThroughoutthe novel, Dew renders the political personal and the personal incandescent....She StartFragmentzoomsinto the hearts and minds of her characters with the kind of acuity thatreminds us why we read."EndFragmentEndFragment - Rachel Basch - Washington PostRobb Forman Dew is a master at delineating the way the mundane and profound are joined at the hip, and Being Polite to Hitler in its portrait of midcentury America shuttles us smoothly from the most intimate heartbreak to events of interest worldwide, reminding us of the nearly infinite variations of grief, and solace, and how even the most conscientious and compassionate can leave emotional havoc in their wake. - Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, AnywayRobb Forman Dew is one of our great national treasures: a novelist whose keen and sympathetic understanding of human nature is matched by her elegant, beautiful prose. Being Polite to Hitler is an absorbing story in which many readers will find their own families, and their own selves. - Dani Shapiro, author of Family History and Devotion: A MemoirNational Book Award winner Dew (for Dale Loves Sophie to Death) uses her signature elegant and often delightfully funny style to move seamlessly back and forth between the macro- and microcosm of the new America. Her latest should generate demand for the first two series titles as well. - Beth E. Andersen - Library JournalNational Book Award-winner Dew wraps up the trilogy she began with The Evidence Against Her by considering, in ways both joyful and elegiac, the juxtaposition of the profound and the mundane through the years 1953 to 1973 in smalltown Washburn, Ohio.... Agnes is clearly a literary heir of Mrs. Ramsay, and the narrative, ranging freely not only among Agnes's sprawling family but also throughout her political and cultural milieu, owes a debt to Woolf. Particularly when read in conjunction with her other novels about Washburn, Dew's latest is an impressionistic portrait of a family and an age striving for clarity and understanding. - Publishers WeeklyA winning, quietly lyrical account of a simpler time. - Lisa Kay Greissinger - People

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