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White houses : a novel / Amy Bloom.
"Told from Lorena Hickok's perspective, this novel is inspired by her life and by her relationship and long-term friendship with beloved Eleanor Roosevelt. A behind-the-scenes in the Roosevelt White House, where Lorea lived, and follows Hickok's life from childhood, and then in tandem with Eleanor's, the ups and downs of being "First Friend," through the death of FDR, and finally of Eleanor." -- Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780812995664 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: x, 218 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
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| Subject: | Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 > Fiction. Hickok, Lorena A. > Fiction. Presidents' spouses > Fiction. Women journalists > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 14 of 16 copies available at Sitka.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Elkford Public Library | FC BLO (Text) | 35170000423376 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC BLO (Text) | 35136000537176 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | Blo (Text) | 32665002100487 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Pemberton and District Public Library | F BLO (Text) | 31894000529460 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Pender Island Public Library | BLO (Text)
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| Pender Island Public Library | VAN1701812621524 (Text) | BPI1701812621524 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | On order | - |
| Sparwood Public Library | FIC BLO (Text) | 35172000234332 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | In transit | - |
| Whistler Public Library | FIC BLO (Text) | 33987001202950 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
After meeting the future first lady while covering Franklin Roosevelt's campaign, Lorena Hickock and Eleanor discover a powerful passion between them. - Baker & Taylor
ANew York Times best-selling author presents a novel inspired by the life of Lorena Hickok, and by her love affair and enduring friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. - Random House, Inc.
For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a âsensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two womenâ (People)âEleanor Roosevelt and âfirst friendâ Lorena Hickok.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times ⢠San Francisco Chronicle ⢠New York Public Library ⢠Refinery29 ⢠Real Simple
Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Rooseveltâs first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, âHick,â as sheâs known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as âfirst friendâ is an open secret, as are FDRâs own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hickâs bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.Â
From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattanâs Washington Square, Amy Bloomâs new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.
Praise for White Houses
âAmy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away.ââPaula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
âVivid and tender . . . Bloomâinterweaving fact and fancyâlavishes attention on [Hickok], bringing Hick, the novelâs narrator and true subject, to radiant life.ââO: The Oprah Magazine
âRadiant . . . an indelible love story, one propelled not by unlined youth and beauty but by the kind of soul-mate connection even distance, age, and impossible circumstances couldnât dim . . . Bloomâs goal is less to relitigate history than to portray the blandly sexless figurehead of First Lady as something the job rarely allows those women to beâa loving, breathing human being. And she does it brilliantly.ââEntertainment Weekly
