Being Polite to Hitler
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the National Book Award winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death, a gorgeously rendered story about a woman starting anew in the middle of her life
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From the National Book Award winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death, a gorgeously rendered story about a woman starting anew in the middle of her life
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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.
Autoren-Porträt von Robb Forman Dew
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robb Forman Dew
- 2011, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 0316889504
- ISBN-13: 9780316889506
Sprache:
Englisch
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"highly original.... Robb Forman Dew covers both the cosmic and the quotidian as she follows a formidably intermingled group of people in the town of Washburn, Ohio. The novel, which resides mostly in the 1950s until an acceleration near the end yanks everyone all the way up to 1973, beautifully chronicles the experiences of a widowed schoolteacher, Agnes Scofield, and those in her midst.... Dew's novels identify and describe not just a town and its people but the American mind-set at particular moments in time.... Dew also sprinkles her storytelling with inventively apt asides, as when a character explains how a dog's stomach can spontaneously twist, "the way a lemon drop is wrapped." This sort of casual juxtaposition is ingenious and surprising. "Being Polite to Hitler" is a deeply knowing novel--progressive, certainly, and at times quietly, thrillingly strange."-- New York Times Book Review "Meg Wolitzer "
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