The Wife
Discover the critically acclaimed novel behind Glenn Close's Oscar nominated performance
$27.65
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2018
Summary
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING GLENN CLOSE
A husband. A wife. A secret. Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman.
Joe and Joan Castleman are on an aeroplane, 35,000 feet above the ocean. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he is about to receive and Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long Joan has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, subjugating her own talents and quietly being the keystone of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784709884 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784709883 |
| Author: | Meg Wolitzer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Hilarious and touching
Hilarious and touching – Erica Wagner * The Times *Meg Wolitzer is so funny and clever she should be bottled and sold as tonic * Allison Pearson *It’s funny, and it’s brilliant, and I press it on everyone I know – Rachel Cooke * BBC Radio 4, A Good Read *A triumph of tone and observation, The Wife is a blithe, brilliant take on sexual politics – Lorrie MooreWith a great lightness of touch, Wolitzer’s novel satirises American literary circles of the Seventies and Eighties and traces the generation of wives who poured their own creative energies into “stoking the fires” of their husbands’ reputations – Emma Hagestadt * Independent *Already a classic… and I have no idea why its author remains so less well known than her US compatriots, Alison Lurie and Lorrie Moore * Observer *
About The Author
Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels- The Uncoupling (‘tingles with playfulness and wicked observation’ Independent); The Position (‘one of the best and most human books I’ve read all year’ Erica Wagner); The Ten-Year Nap (‘as incisive and pitiless and clear-eyed a chronicler of female-male tandems as Philip Roth or John Updike’ Chicago Tribune) and, most recently, The Interestings. She is married with two sons and lives in New York City.
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