| The Wife Contributor(s): Wolitzer, Meg (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743456661 ISBN-13: 9780743456661 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 Annotation: Tackling everything from the challenges of marriage to the nature of gender, this bold work by Wolitzer seizes the reader and never lets go. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Media Tie-in |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.40 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe-winning role One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer's most beloved books--an "acerbically funny" (Entertainment Weekly) and "intelligent...portrait of deception" (The New York Times). The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they've kept for decades. The novel opens just as Joe is about to receive a prestigious international award, The Helsinki Prize, to honor his career as one of America's preeminent novelists. Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, finally decides to stop. Important and ambitious, The Wife is a sharp-eyed and compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she's made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted. "A rollicking, perfectly pitched triumph...Wolitzer's talent for comedy of manners reaches a heady high" (Los Angeles Times), in this wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make--in marriage, work, and life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wolitzer, Meg: - Meg Wolitzer's novels include The Female Persuasion; Sleepwalking; This Is Your Life; Surrender, Dorothy; and The Position. She lives in New York City. |