num_pages: 320
description: Based on truth the sensuous captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women (People)--Eleanor Roosevelt and first friend Lorena Hickok.Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt's first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America Hick as she's 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 first friend is an open secret as are FDR's 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 Hick's 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.From Washington D.C. to Hyde Park from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times written in compelling prose and with emotional depth wit and acuity.
language: English
title: White Houses
publisher: Random House Large Print