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49 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Riverhead Hardcover, 2008

Not for non-urbanites, but that's a COMPLIMENT
Anyone looking for a good learning experience for a book group, or a realistic portrait of the "normal" in-home mom experience, will not find it here. Non-urban or conservative readers should stop carping about how this book doesn't reflect their experience! A book about motherhood isn't required to speak to every mother. This is a story for New Yorkers and people who orbit Manhattan, and as ...

Surrender, Dorothy: A Novel

21 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Scribner, 2000

Surrender, Dorothy
Thirty-year-old Sara Swerdlow and her friends Adam, Maddy, and Peter spend every August in a run-down rental by the beach, re-experiencing in these regular escapes from real life their one-time college intimacy--that peculiar closeness born of cohabitation and limited responsibility that most of us lose at graduation. This year the cast of characters is expanded: Maddy and Peter, long married, ...

The Wife: A Novel

59 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Scribner, 2004

The gradual decline of a marriage
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer is difficult to categorize. There's a mystery that, seemingly, plays second fiddle in the story, yet it's the pivotal event that defines the characters' lives for over forty years. Through her protagonist, Ms. Wolitzer depicts many of the constraints and frustrations women were experiencing at a time when the second-wave feminist movement was hitting its stride. But ...

The Position: A Novel

26 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Scribner, 2006

Bravo
I loved this book. Meg has a remarkable writing style and insight into human nature. I loved the way she captured the loss of childhood. Not quite as good as The Wife but an excellent read that I highly recommend.

Sleepwalking

2 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Random House Inc (T), 1982

Hey, I Liked It
Granted, I haven't read this book since I bought it as a mass market paperback (my edition was the one with Goth cover at right) some 20 years ago. It was shelved (and possibly marketed?) as a YA book. Anyway, I really enjoyed it. It's about a young woman's obsession with a suicide, a poet whose Long Island family the heroine, Clare, tracks down and lives with for a while. What I remember are ...

Friends for Life

3 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Zebra, 1995

fantastic summer reading
Just what the doctor ordered to start off the summer. . . while I can't say this is a literary masterpiece, it is definitely entertaining, enjoyable, and a fast read. Treat yourself!

Fitzgerald Did It: The Writer's Guide to Mastering the Screenplay (Penguin Original)

5 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

Great Book for Accomplished Writers
This book is perfect for people who already have a lot of experience writing stories, but who now want to try their hand at the screenplay form. There is none of the boring, basic stuff about how to define a character or what a story arc is; instead Wolitzer focuses on translating the skills you already have to the specifics of the screenplay. Very helpful to aspiring screenwriters!

Operation: Save the Teacher : Saturday Night Toast (Operation: save the teacher)

1 review
Meg Wolitzer

Camelot, 1993

relaxation reading
This book is good for girls because it's something that some girls do, or at least think of doing. Its's what I call "relaxation reading" because it's an easy, fun book, that you can enjoy, instead of struggling with hard words.

This is Your Life

2 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Random House Value Publishing, 1994

Wolitzer's early work reflects the mother-daughter relationship
Much darker than her more recent works, this book is likely a reflection of the ambiguous feelings Meg Wolitzer had for her own mother, novelist Hilma Wolitzer -- whose popularity Meg eclipsed with her later novels. Even though I enjoyed the book, I also enjoyed the movie, which was so diferent that it can hardly be said to be the same story. It's no wonder the movie was less intense -- the ...

Hidden Pictures (Methuen Modern Fiction)

2 reviews
Meg Wolitzer

Mandarin, 1988

A life.
The elegance of Wolitzer's novel is its authenticity. Most actual coming-out stories do not feature anti-gay violence or a rending of parent-child bonds. Anymore. Wolitzer's characters live authentic, believable lives; still, they are adorned with the fears and questions common to those who have chosen to live a more honest and less-certain life. Wolitzer does a beautiful job of nuancing ...

La Esposa
Meg Wolitzer

TusQuets, 2004

Wolitzer empieza esta provocadora e irresistible novela con Joan Castleman y sentada junto a su marido Joseph, uno de las más importantes escritores americanos contemporáneos, a 35.000 pies de altura. Joseph -Joe-, que está a punto de recibir un prestiogioso premio literario, no sabe que Joan tiene una sola idea en la cabeza: acabar con su matrimonio. Tras este principio arrollador, Joan nos explica la historia de sus cuarenta años como esposa, ...

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