The Wife Meg Wolitzer

Name: The Wife By Meg Wolitzer
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The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

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Summary

Their Secret

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long she has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, whilst quietly being the keystone of his success.

The Wife Summary

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long she has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, whilst quietly being the keystone of his success. But behind the compromises, the disappointment and disillusionment there lies a secret...

The Wife Reviews

Meg Wolitzer is so funny and clever she should be bottled and sold as tonic * Allison Pearson *
A triumph of tone and observation, The Wife is a blithe, brilliant take on sexual politics * Lorrie Moore *
Hilarious and touching * Erica Wagner, The Times *
With 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 *
The wife was published less than a decade ago, but I say it is already a classic - and I have no idea why it's author remains so less well known than her US compatriots, Alison Lurie and Lorrie Moore. * Observer *

About Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Uncoupling ('tingles with playfulness and wicked observation' Independent), The Wife ('has you howling with recognition' Allison Pearson), The Position ('one of the best and most human books I've read all year' Erica Wagner) and 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). Most recently, The Interestings was a New York Times bestseller. She lives in New York City.

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GOR001050923

ISBN 13

9780099478195

ISBN 10

0099478196

Title

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Author

Meg Wolitzer

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20040805

Number of pages

224

Prizes

N/A

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