Brought to you by Penguin. Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife. In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels, as she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends. In ‘The Patron Saints of Middle Age,’ a woman visits two friends she hasn’t seen since her divorce. In ‘A for Alone,’ a married artist embarks on a project intended to disprove the so-called Mike Pence Rule, which suggests that women and men can’t spend time alone together without lusting after each other. And in ‘Lost but Not Forgotten,’ Sittenfeld gives readers of her novel Prep a new window into the world of her beloved character Lee Fiora, decades later, when Lee attends an awkward school reunion. Witty, confronting and full of tenderness, Sittenfeld peels back layer after layer of our inner lives, keeping us riveted to the page with her utterly distinctive voice. 'Messy and delicious' New York Times 'Anything Sittenfeld writes, we'll read' People 'No-one else writes with such precision and amusement' Red Magazine ©2025 Curtis Sittenfeld (P)2025 Penguin Audio

Show Don't Tell

Brought to you by Penguin. THE AMAZING NEW NOVEL FROM CURTIS SITTENFELD: 'A rollercoaster of modern love and dating' STYLIST 'One of my all-time favourite authors. A brilliantly written, funny page-turner, I want to read it all again' PANDORA SYKES A TV script writer thinks she's over romance, until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions: a humorous, subversive and tender-hearted novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Rodham, American Wife and Prep. _____________ Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy... With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love. But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women. Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this 'social rule'. The reverse never happens for a woman. Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn't a romantic comedy - it's real life. Would someone like him ever date someone like her? Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best. 'Curtis Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' GUARDIAN 'Anyone who reads Sittenfeld will read anything she ever writes' THE TIMES © Curtis Sittenfeld 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Romantic Comedy

Hillary Rodham är 1971 en ung och lovande kvinna: hennes examenstal på Wellesley College har uppmärksammats av tidskriften Life, hon studerar juridik vid Yale Law School och hon är aktiv inom student- och kvinnorörelsen. Då träffar hon Bill Clinton. Bill är en stilig och karismatisk studentkamrat från sydstaterna, redan med siktet inställt på en politisk karriär. I varandra hittar de en djup samhörighet som ingen av dem tidigare upplevt, varken intellektuellt, känslomässigt eller fysiskt. I verkligheten följde Hillary med Bill hem till Arkansas och han friade flera gånger. Trots att han fick nobben mer än en gång svarade hon som alla vet till slut ja och blev Hillary Clinton. I Curtis Sittenfelds härligt fantasifulla roman går Hillary i stället en annan väg. Tvivlen kring det eventuella äktenskapet får henne att trots allt välja den svåra brytningen och lämna Arkansas. Under fyra årtionden stakar hon ut en egen bana, såväl offentligt som privat, en bana som återkommande korsas av Bill Clinton och som väcker frågor om de avvägningar vi alla måste göra när vi skapar oss ett liv. Curtis Sittenfeld väver mästerligt ihop fängslande fiktion med verkliga historiska händelser och skapar en skärpt och träffsäker berättelse för vår tid. Rodham är en unik och oförglömlig roman som utforskar den ensamhet, moraliska kluvenhet och järnhårda beslutsamhet som kännetecknar strävandena efter politisk makt, men också av den glöd och de smärtsamma kompromisser som krävs av en kvinna med ambitioner i en värld som fortfarande till största delen styrs av män.

Rodham

En tvåbarnsmamma i villaförorten fantiserar om att förgöra en gammal vän vars präktiga livsstilsimperium kanske eller kanske inte är byggt på en lögn. En framstående advokat vet inte hur hon ska reagera när hon och hennes man på sin smekmånad stöter på hennes gamla plågoande från skoltiden. En bortkommen Ivy League-student får veta sanningen om en kursares till synes avundsvärda liv. Curtis Sittenfeld har gjort sig känd som en vass samtidsskildrare som förmänskligar dem hon skriver om samtidigt som hon gör ner dem. I hennes första novellsamling får vi en aldrig tidigare skådad uppvisning av hennes ”fenomenala förmåga att skapa karaktärer som bosätter sig i huvudet på läsaren” (Washington Post). I samtliga tio noveller i Jag säger det ni tänker vänder Sittenfeld upp och ner på förutfattade meningar om klass, förhållanden och könsroller i ett land som tycks både på glid och ohjälpligt splittrat. Med gripande inlevelse och kuslig träffsäkerhet sätter Curtis Sittenfeld fingret på de tvivelaktiga beslut, missade förbindelser och stundtals häpnadsväckande sammanträffanden som utgör ett liv. Hon skriver verkligen det vi alla tänker – om vi nu kunde formulera oss lika slagfärdigt som en virtuos satiriker, lika fängslande som svunna tiders historieberättare och lika klarsynt som ett amerikanskt original.

Jag säger det ni tänker

I 1971 er Hillary Rodham fra Chicago en ung kvinde med en lovende fremtid: Life Magazine dækker hendes afgangstale fra det prestigiøse Wellesley College, hun starter på Yale og er frontkvinde i bevægelsen for kvinders rettigheder. Og så møder hun Bill Clinton. En smuk og karismatisk fyr fra Sydstaterne, der som hun studerer jura. Bill lægger allerede planer for sin politiske karriere. De bliver kærester, og oplever en dyb samhørighed både intellektuelt, fysisk og følelsesmæssigt. Men da Bill frier til hende, siger Hillary kategorisk nej. Hvad ville der være sket for dem begge, for USA og for verden, hvis Hillary Rodham virkelig havde afvist Bill Clinton? Rodham er en fiktiv og forrygende fortælling om en kvinde, vi alle synes vi kender. Med et skarpt og varmt blik udforsker Curtis Sittenfeld ensomheden, jernviljen og de smertelige kompromisser i Hillarys jagt på den politiske magt i en verden styret af mænd.

RODHAM

Brought to you by Penguin WHAT IF HILLARY RODHAM HAD TURNED DOWN BILL CLINTON'S PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE? ‘Startlingly good. One of my favourite writers.’ Kate Atkinson ‘Awfully opinionated for a girl’ is what they call Hillary as she grows up in her Chicago suburb. Smart, diligent, and a bit plain, that’s the general consensus. Then Hillary goes to college, and her star rises. At Yale Law School, she continues to be a leader— and catches the eye of driven, handsome and charismatic Bill. But when he asks her to marry him, Hillary gives him a firm No. The rest, as they say, isn’t history. How might things have turned out for them, for America, for the world itself, if Hillary Rodham had really turned down Bill Clinton? With her sharp but always compassionate eye, Sittenfeld explores the loneliness, moral ambivalence and iron determination that characterise the quest for high office, as well as the painful compromises demanded of female ambition in a world ruled by men. Uncannily astute and witty in the telling, RODHAM is a brilliant reimagining – an unmissable literary landmark and truly a novel of our times. © Curtis Sittenfeld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

“To read their stories felt to me the way I suspect other people feel hearing jazz for the first time,” recalls Curtis Sittenfeld of her initial encounter with the Best American Short Stories series. “They were windows into emotions I had and hadn’t had, into other settings and circumstances and observations and relationships.” Decades later, Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year’s edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish. THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2020 INCLUDES T. C. BOYLE • EMMA CLINE • MARY GAITSKILL ANDREA LEE • ELIZABETH McCRACKEN • ALEJANDRO PUYANA WILLIAM PEI SHIH • KEVIN WILSON and others

Best American

The Best American Short Stories 2020

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE, ELIGIBLE and YOU THINK IT, I'LL SAY IT. Lee Fiora is a shy fourteen-year-old when she leaves small-town Indiana for a scholarship at Ault, an exclusive boarding school in Massachusetts. Her head is filled with images from the school brochure of handsome boys in sweaters leaning against old brick buildings, girls running with lacrosse sticks across pristine athletics fields, everyone singing hymns in chapel. But as she soon learns, Ault is a minefield of unstated rules and incomprehensible social rituals, and Lee must work hard to find - and maintain - her place in the pecking order. 'Sittenfeld writes girls and women as they truly are, with shades of light and dark, with and without grace, apologetic as well as fearless' BIM ADEWUNMI, Guardian 'PREP might just be my favourite book' PANDORA SYKES 'Sittenfeld shares with Salinger a knack of capturing, in effortless prose, a teenager mindset' The Times 'PREP is more than a coming of age story - it’s a study of social class ... and Sittenfeld renders it with astonishing deftness and clarity.' JENNIFER EGAN 'Straightforward, serious, funny... There is so much that is right about this book.' London Review of Books 'Sharp, caustic and brilliantly observed' Observer © Curtis Sittenfeld 2005 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Prep

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘This is Pride and Prejudice 2.0 and I must confess, I liked it more than the original’ STYLIST ‘Bold and brilliant’ GLAMOUR 'Sheer joy… Giddy and glam and a hearty update of Pride and Prejudice’ JESSIE BURTON, author of The Miniaturist Liz and Jane Bennet are good daughters. They’ve come home to suburban Cincinnati to get their mother to stop feeding their father steak as he recovers from heart surgery, to tidy up the crumbling Tudor-style family home, and to wrench their three sisters from their various states of arrested development. Once they are under the same roof, old patterns return fast. Soon they are being berated for their single status – and for two successful women in their late thirties, it really is too much to bear. That is, until the Lucas family’s BBQ throws them in the way of some eligible single men . . . In this dazzling, heart-warming read, the much-loved classic Pride and Prejudice is catapulted into our modern world, singing out with hilarity and truth. __________________________________________________ Praise for ELIGIBLE: ‘If there exists a more perfect pairing than Curtis Sittenfeld and Jane Austen, we dare you to find it’Elle ‘These days, if Curtis Sittenfeld writes it, I read it’ Judy Blume ‘Eligible has all the charm, wit and romance of Pride & Prejudice…an absolute delight’ Red ‘Dazzling’Woman and Home ‘Such a feast of a book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Not since “Clueless,” has Austen been so delightedly interpreted’ New York Times

Eligible

Sally Milz ist Comedy-Autorin für eine der bekanntesten Late-Night-Shows in Amerika. Ihr Job ist ihr Leben, das Thema Beziehung hält sie mit den Waffen der Ironie auf Distanz. Als ihr Kollege Danny Hirst mit einer Schauspielerin zusammenkommt und sich damit in die gar nicht so kleine Riege eher durchschnittlicher Männer, die mit unglaublich schönen und erfolgreichen Frauen eine Beziehung führen, einreiht, platzt ihr fast der Kragen. Warum tritt der umgekehrte Fall eigentlich nie ein? Sie tut, was sie immer tut, schreibt einen Sketch und verwandelt ihre Gefühle in Comedy. Doch dann tritt Noah Brewster in ihr Leben. Der Popstar ist als musikalischer Gast für die Show engagiert. Sie verstehen sich auf Anhieb, und Sally fragt sich bald, ob da nicht vielleicht mehr zwischen ihnen sein könnte. Aber das hier ist keine romantische Komödie, sondern das wahre Leben. Und im echten Leben würde sich jemand wie er niemals auf jemanden wie sie einlassen, oder?

Lee Fiora är en intelligent och observant fjortonåring när hennes pappa släpper av henne utanför sovsalen till den prestigefyllda internatskolan i Massachusetts. Hon har lämnat sin livliga lyckliga familj efter att ha sökt ett stipendium till Ault som hon, åtminstone delvis, valt på grund av den glassiga broschyr hon beundrat. Men Lee upptäcker snart att skolan är en sluten värld av blasé, attraktiva ungdomar som tillbringar sina lov på exklusiva semesterorter och som bara kommunicerar med sina likar. Pengar är något alla andra har, men ingen talar om. I deras sällskap blir Lee någon hon inte vill vara, någon hon inte ens känner igen. Hennes försök att närma sig andra slutar oftast i att hon sluter sig än mer. Hur ska man veta vem man är, när ingenting omkring påminner en?Curtis Sittenfelds debutbok är en insiktsfull, hjärtslitande och rolig uppväxthistoria likaväl som ett skickligt utforskande av klass, ras och kön i ett drivhus av tonårsångest, sex och ambition.

I en klass för sig

Random House presents the audiobook edition of You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld, read by Emily Rankin and Mark Deakins. In ‘The World Has Many Butterflies’, a married woman flirts with a man she meets at parties by playing You think it, I’ll say it, putting into words the bitchy things she guesses he's thinking about their fellow guests. But she is in for a shock when, in time, she finds out what was really in his mind. ‘The Nominee’ sees Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, confessing her surprising true feelings about a woman journalist she has sparred with over the years. In ‘Gender Studies’, a visiting academic sleeps with her taxi driver, for what turns out to be all the wrong reasons. The theme that unites these stories in this dazzling first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld is how even the cleverest people tend to misread others, and how much we all deceive ourselves. Sharp and tender, funny and wise, this collection shows Sittenfeld’s knack for creating real, believable characters, while also skewering contemporary mores with brilliant dry wit. *'Do-Over, one of the stories in this dazzling first collection by Curtis Sittenfeld,is shortlisted for the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award* ‘Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis Sittenfeld would read anything else the woman wrote, me included’ The Times

You Think It, I'll Say It

Brought to you by Penguin For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect – they share a hidden gift they call ‘the Senses’, a special kind of intuition that can allow them to see things that are yet to come. After Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, they are set on diverging paths into their adult lives. Twenty years later Kate is a suburban housewife who suppresses her premonitions in the hope of leading a normal family life, while Violet lives alone and works as a psychic medium. Then one day Violet ignites a media storm by predicting a major earthquake in the St Louis area where they live. As the day Violet has announced for the earthquake draws nearer, the sisters must grapple with the legacy of the past, the confusion of the present, and the unsettling glimpses they both have of the future. © Curtis Sittenfeld 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Sisterland

Brought to you by Penguin. Sittenfeld's wryly hilarious and insightful new collection, HELP YOURSELF, illuminates human experience and gracefully upends our assumptions about class and race, envy and disappointment, gender dynamics and celebrity. Suburban friends fall out after a racist encounter at a birthday party is caught on video and posted on Facebook; an illustrious Manhattan film crew are victims of their own snobbery when they underestimate a pre-school teacher from the Mid-West; and a group of young writers fight about love and narrative style as they compete for a prestigious bursary. Connecting each of these three stories is Sittenfeld's truthful yet merciless eye, as her characters stagger from awkwardness, to humiliation and, if they're lucky, to reconciliation. Full of tenderness and compassion, this dazzling collection celebrates our humanity in all its pettiness and glory. Praise for CURTIS SITTENFELD: 'Nobody else writes with such precison and amusement about the absolute inability of men and women to understand each other' RED MAGAZINE 'You won't want these stories to end' REESE WITHERSPOON 'Perfect miniatures in deadpan prose' GUARDIAN 'Clear-eyed and compulsive' MAIL ON SUNDAY © Curtis Sittenfeld 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Help Yourself

Brought to you by Penguin Hannah is a confused fourteen-year-old. In the magazines she reads, celebrities plan elaborate weddings; in Hannah's own life, her parents' marriage is crumbling. Over the next decade and a half, love throws her some complicated questions. At what point can you no longer blame your adult failures on your messed up childhood? Is settling for someone who's not your soulmate an act of maturity or an admission of defeat? And if you move to another state for a guy who might not love you back, are you being plucky - or just pathetic? © Curtis Sittenfeld 2000 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

The Man of My Dreams

Brought to you by Penguin In the year 2000, in the closest election in American history, Alice Blackwell's husband becomes president of the United States. Their time in the White House proves to be heady, tumultuous, and controversial. But it is Alice's own story - that of a kind, bookish, only child born in the 1940s Midwest who comes to inhabit a life of dizzying wealth and power - that is itself remarkable. Alice candidly describes her small-town upbringing, and the tragedy that shaped her identity; she recalls her early adulthood as a librarian, and her surprising courtship with the man who swept her off her feet; she tells of the crisis that almost ended their marriage; and she confides the privileges and difficulties of being first lady, a role that is uniquely cloistered and public, secretive and exposed. In Alice Blackwell, Curtis Sittenfeld has created her most dynamic and complex heroine yet. American Wife is not a novel about politics. It is a gorgeously written novel that weaves race, class, fate and wealth into a brilliant tapestry. It is a novel in which the unexpected becomes inevitable, and the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love are laid bare. (c) Curtis Sittenfeld 2008 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

American Wife

Mrs. Bennets Leben dreht sich nur um das Eine: Wie kann sie es bloß schaffen, dass ihre fünf Töchter endlich den Richtigen finden? Zumindest für Jane, die Älteste, gibt es Hoffnung: Chip Bingley, der attraktive Arzt, der noch vor kurzem als Bachelor in der Fernsehshow "Vermählung" vergeblich nach der großen Liebe suchte, zieht in die Kleinstadt. Und gleich beim ersten Zusammentreffen knistert es zwischen Chip und Jane - ganz zur Freude von Mrs. Bennets. Doch was ist mit ihren vier anderen unverheirateten Töchtern?

Vermählung (Gekürzt)

"Se você precisa de um passatempo inteligente, sofisticado e divertido (quem não precisa?), este livro é para você." Oprah Daily "Uma carta de amor para as comédias românticas... A escrita de Sittenfeld traz à tona o desejo feminino: o que queremos, o que com certeza não queremos e, talvez o mais importante, o que podemos ter..." The New York Times Book Review Sally Milz é roteirista do The Night Owls, um programa de humor que vai ao ar na TV todo sábado. Com uma série de desilusões amorosas dignas de uma sitcom, há muito tempo Sally desistiu do amor, preferindo focar na carreira, em encontros casuais e conversas com o padrasto. Mas a vida é cheia de surpresas. E quando Noah Brewster, um fenômeno da música pop, é contratado como apresentador e convidado musical para o The Night Owls, Sally precisa repensar alguns de seus conceitos. Noah é o tipo de cara que só namora modelos, então Sally sabe que não deveria criar expectativa. Porém, depois de passarem uma noite juntos escrevendo um esquete, algo surge entre os dois e Sally começa a se perguntar se realmente pode estar pintando um clima entre eles. Só que esta não é uma comédia romântica — é a vida real. E, na vida real, alguém como Noah nunca namoraria alguém como Sally… certo? Neste livro que remete às melhores comédias, Curtis Sittenfeld explora a maravilha do amor enquanto analisa os rituais sociais do romance e as relações de gênero na era moderna.

Comédia romântica

La adolescencia te prepara para todo... menos para sobrevivir a ella. Si siempre has querido leer El guardián entre el centeno con una chica como protagonista, ¡tienes que conocer a Lee Fiora! «Cómica, sincera, sorprendentemente sensual y teñida por una mirada muy particular sobre la vida y los corazones rotos en un exclusivo internado de Nueva Inglaterra». Tom Perrotta «La prosa de Curtis Sittenfeld se abre camino con una voz tan firme y rotunda que me creería cualquier cosa que dijese». Dave Eggers Cuando su padre la acompaña hasta la entrada del prestigioso internado Ault de Massachusetts, no parece que Lee Fiora añore demasiado a la familia que deja atrás en su pequeña ciudad de Indiana, seducida por las brillantes fotografías del elegante folleto promocional del centro: chicos de uniforme delante de vetustos edificios de ladrillo y chicas con falda escocesa y palos de lacrosse sobre un césped inmaculado. Pero como no tarda en descubrir, Ault es un mundo aparte, habitado por jóvenes ricos, hastiados y atractivos que se rigen por sus propios códigos. Tan intimidada como atraída por su deslumbrante entorno, Lee luchará por construir una nueva identidad que le permita seguir adelante, un delicado equilibrio entre dejar de sentirse una extraña y no olvidarse de ser ella misma. Con una protagonista tan auténtica y llena de matices como el Holden Caulfield de Salinger o el Mick Kelly de McCullers, Una perfecta educación es un afilado retrato de la intensa y contradictoria edad de los ritos de paso, una divertida, desprejuiciada y sensual puesta al día de la eterna novela de aprendizaje.

Nuevos Tiempos

Una perfecta educación

Libro estrella en The New York Times, Sin compromiso es una elegante y divertida reescritura en clave moderna de Orgullo y prejuicio. Nada en el mundo podría haber preparado a Lizzy Bennet, treintañera de buena familia que trabaja en una revista femenina, y a su hermana mayor, Jane, monitora de yoga a punto de cumplir los cuarenta, para el panorama que se encuentran al volver a Cincinnati: la enorme casa de estilo Tudor en la que se criaron se cae a pedazos y toda su familia parece envuelta en una crisis sin solución. Las hermanas menores, Kitty y Lydia, están demasiado ocupadas con sus ejercicios de crossfit y sus paleodietas como para buscar trabajo. Mary, la mediana, está sacándose su tercera carrera on-line y apenas sale de su cuarto. Y la señora Bennet solo piensa en una cosa: cómo casar a sus hijas. Con la entrada en escena de Chip Bingley, un atractivo médico que ha participado en un reality para buscar pareja, y su amigo, el neurocirujano Fitzwilliam Darcy, la vida de todos los miembros de la familia Bennet dará un giro completamente inesperado... En Sin compromiso, que homenajea y revisa con desenfado la obra maestra de Jane Austen, Sittenfeld lanza una nueva y refrescante mirada sobre temas tan clásicos como las diferencias de clase, el amor o las relaciones familiares, logrando así una de las novelas más sofisticadas y entretenidas de los últimos años.

Sin compromiso

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