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The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical "feminist horror" novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a talented photographer, wife, and young mother who suspects that something in the town of Stepford is changing the wives from free-thinking, intelligent women into compliant wives dedicated solely to homemaking.
- Ira Levin
- 1972
Sep 1, 1972 · The Stepford Wives. Ira Levin, Peter Straub. 3.84. 42,180 ratings3,892 reviews. For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
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Apr 2, 2024 · The Stepford Wives, novel by American author Ira Levin, published in 1972. It has been described as the first “feminist horror novel,” with echoes of Levin’s earlier horror masterpiece Rosemary’s Baby. Photographer Joanne Eberhart and Walter, her husband, have just moved to Stepford, Connecticut, with their two children.
Jul 23, 2002 · The Stepford Wives. Paperback – July 23, 2002. by Ira Levin (Author), Peter Straub (Author) 4.3 3,023 ratings. See all formats and editions. The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby. With an Introduction by Peter Straub.
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- Ira Levin, Peter Straub
- Ira Levin
Jan 1, 2004 · As Joanne's isolation grows, she begins to think she and her friend Bobbie might be the only liberated women left in Stepford. But when Bobbie very suddenly turns into one of the Stepford Wives too, Joanne begins to fear that something sinister is at work - and that her own days of freedom might be numbered too.
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- Ira Levin
Jul 23, 2002 · At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.
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HarperCollins, 1972 - Fiction - 145 pages. 39 Reviews. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. All the beautiful people live in the idyllic...