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Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe-winning role!

One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer´s most beloved books-an "acerbically funny" (Entertainment Weekly) and "intelligent...portrait of deception" (The New York Times).

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. Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, finally decides to stop.

Important and ambitious, The Wife is a sharp-eyed and compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she´s made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted. "A rollicking, perfectly pitched triumph...Wolitzer´s talent for comedy of manners reaches a heady high" (Los Angeles Times), in this wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make-in marriage, work, and life.

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A New York Times Notable Book

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Wolitzer, Meg
Meg Wolitzer´s novels include The Female Persuasion; Sleepwalking; This Is Your Life; Surrender, Dorothy; and The Position. She lives in New York City.

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