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Praise for American Wife“Curtis Sittenfeld is an amazing writer, and American Wife is a brave and moving novel about the intersection of private and public life in America. Curtis Sittenfeld has written a novel as impressive as it is improbable. Ambitious and humble at the same time, Sittenfeld refuses to trivialize or simplify people, whether real or imagined. ”A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice learned the virtues of politeness early on from her stolid parents and small Wisconsin hometown. And when Charlie eventually becomes President, Alice is thrust into a position she did not seek–one of power and influence, privilege and responsibility. And then, much to her surprise, Alice fell for Charlie. ”–Kurt Andersen . As Alice learns to make her way amid the cla... see description |
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The final section of the book treats issues of style—the details that go into making a strong paper. The appendix draws together everything writers need to know about formatting research papers, theses, and dissertations and preparing them for submission. They preserve Turabian’s clear and practical advice while fully embracing the new modes of research, writing, and source citation brought about by the age of the Internet. This material has been thoroughly vetted by dissertation officials at colleges and universities across the country. The dissertation secretary at Chicago for decades, Kate Turabian literally wrote the book on the successful completion and submission of the student paper. The University of Chicago has been the home of some of the most important thinkers of the m... see description |
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Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo’s fall fro... see description |
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