The Wife - by Meg Wolitzer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Tackling everything from the challenges of marriage to the nature of gender, this bold work by Wolitzer seizes the reader and never lets go.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe-winning role!</b> <p/><b>One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer's most beloved books--an "acerbically funny" (<i>Entertainment Weekly</i>) and "intelligent...portrait of deception" (<i>The New York Times</i>). </b> <p/><i>The Wife</i> 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. <p/>Important and ambitious, <i>The Wife</i> 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" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>), in this wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make--in marriage, work, and life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Entertainment Weekly</i> Acerbically funny...Wolitzer keeps us guessing right up until the gut-wrenching twist of a finale.<br><br><i>Los Angeles Times</i> A rollicking, perfectly pitched triumph...Wolitzer's talent for comedy of manners reaches a heady high.<br><br><i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Deploys a calm, seamless humor...Rage might be the signature emotion of the powerless, but in Wolitzer's hands, rage is also very funny.<br><br><i>The Washington Post</i> To say that <i>The Wife</i> is Wolitzer's most ambitious novel to date is an understatement. This important book introduces another side of a writer we thought we knew: Never before has she written so feverishly, so courageously.<br>
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