Being Polite to Hitler

ISBN-13: 9780316018753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str.

Robb Forman Dew

Opis

After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? Often eloquent, sometimes blunt, and always full of fire, the Scofield family is not one to keep its opinions quiet. As much as Agnes would like to, she can no more sidestep their adamant advice than she can step down as their matriarch. But, despite her reluctance to become even more entangled in the family web, Agnes is amazed to feel her life grow because of it.
In Being Polite to Hitler, Robb Forman Dew intricately details personal and family life in a moving, frank, and surprising portrait of post-World War II America.

Recenzje

"A remarkable achievement, a vividly detailed and deeply textured mural of a century of American life.... Throughout the novel, Dew renders the political personal and the personal incandescent....She zooms into the hearts and minds of her characters with the kind of acuity that reminds us why we read." -Rachel Basch, Washington Post

O autorze

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.