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Apr 13, 2004 · The Wife is a milestone in the career of one of her generation's truest novelists.” —Adam Gopnik “The wife of The Wife is a brilliantly conceived character, smart and foolish, tough-minded and weak-willed, witty and profoundly sad. And Meg Wolitzer's observations about gender and creativity: They are not only pointed, but penetrating.
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The Wife is a 2003 novel by American writer Meg Wolitzer. The book was adapted into a film released in 2017, directed by Björn L. Runge , written by Jane Anderson , and starring Glenn Close , Jonathan Pryce , and Christian Slater .
- United States
- 2005 (Scribner)
- English
- Meg Wolitzer
Mar 25, 2003 · Wolitzer's most important and ambitious book to date, The Wife is a wise, sharp-eyed, compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she's made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted. But it's also an unusually candid look at the choices all men and women make for themselves, in marriage, work, and life ...
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Jan 30, 2019 · 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 ...
- Claire Dederer
May 12, 2020 · Busani-Dube is also a journalist based in Johannesburg and is currently completing the fourth and final book in the Hlomu series. "Busani-Dube started writing Hlomu the Wife in 2015, and shared excerpts with friends, asking them for help in editing the book. Instead of helping her, they were instantly hooked, and begged her to continue the story.
- Dudu Busani-Dube
Apr 14, 2003 · THE WIFE. Connect-the-dots predictable except for those occasional tasty morsels of nastiness. Forty-five years of a bad marriage laid out in pat detail, by the author, most recently, of Surrender Dorothy (1999). On the way to Helsinki, where her novelist husband Joe is to receive a major literary award, 64-year-old Joan Castleman relives their ...
Apr 13, 2004 · The Wife 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.
