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The sorrows of young Hillary: Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld, reviewed

23 May 2020

9:00 AM

23 May 2020

9:00 AM

Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld

Doubleday, pp.432, 16.99

Question: which American president and first lady would you care to imagine having intercourse? If that provokes a shudder, be assured that the sex scenes between Yale law students Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton in Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest novel are cringe-free — even the one involving manual stimulation that takes place in a moving car.

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