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- Published: 26 July 2018
- ISBN: 9781784709884
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $22.99
The Wife
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- Published: 26 July 2018
- ISBN: 9781784709884
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $22.99
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
Hilarious and touching
Erica Wagner, The Times
Already a classic... and I have no idea why its author remains so less well known than her US compatriots, Alison Lurie and Lorrie Moore
Observer
A triumph of tone and observation, The Wife is a blithe, brilliant take on sexual politics
Lorrie Moore
Meg Wolitzer is so funny and clever she should be bottled and sold as tonic
Allison Pearson
It’s funny, and it’s brilliant, and I press it on everyone I know
Rachel Cooke, BBC Radio 4, A Good Read