· by Meg Wolitzer ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ap Forty-five years of a bad marriage laid out in pat detail, by the author, most recently, of Surrender Dorothy (). On the way to Helsinki, where her novelist husband Joe is to receive a major literary award, year-old Joan Castleman relives their years together as she steels herself to tell. · I think Meg Wolitzer is pretty brilliant, and love her books, though I’ve not read this one. You might try “The Interestings.” Every time I read one of your Literary Wives reviews I think of a book I reviewed back in May of , “The Headmaster’s Wife,” by Thomas Christopher Green. Your group should consider it. The Wife Meg Wolitzer, Simon Schuster pp. ISBN Summary "The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility.
Meg Wolitzer is a prolific novelist, with more than a dozen eminently readable books to her credit, but none quite like what I consider her best. It was published in - six years before that "Good Wife" made its small screen debut, and eight in advance of poor Mrs. Weiner, looking like she was trying to make the best of a very bad. I knew I liked Meg Wolitzer before I read her latest,The Interestings, but afterwards I was inspired to look for her older novels, something I only do with my very favorite authors. I hit the jackpot this time. The Wife, first published in , is a story set in academia and bltadwin.rued by (you guessed it) the wife of Joe Castleman, an author in his 70s who, after an increasingly. 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.
A good written novel, a story of wrong compromises and sacrifices at life the narrator, Joan the wife, has been married to successful author Joseph Castleman for over forty years, they were traveling where Joseph will receive a major literary award, but she has finally decided to leave him the story of the Castleman couple is told in a series of flashbacks the begining of their relationships in the mid 50s, Joe's success and fame, their children, and while Joan was trying to be a supportive. THE WIFE Meg Wolitzer. Scribner, $23 (p) ISBN Wolitzer (Sleepwalking) opens her latest tale in the first-class cabin of an airplane. Joan, a still-striking year-old woman. THE WIFE By Meg Wolitzer [This is an excerpt from the original book review, “In the Shadow of the Big Boys.” Here are three words that land with a thunk: “gender,” “writing” and.
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