The Wife - Softcover

Wolitzer, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099478196 ISBN 13: 9780099478195

Publisher: Vintage, 2004

Synopsis

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...

About this title

Review:

"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)

From the Publisher:

A surprise bestseller in the US

'The Wife is a complex, compelling portrait of a marriage that raises painful issues, even as it has you howling with recognition. The Wife picks up some of the hard questions with the lightest, most glittering or touches’ Allison Pearson

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099478196
• ISBN 13: 9780099478195
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224