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The Wife (2003)

di Meg Wolitzer

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Meg Wolitzer brings her characteristic wit and intelligence to a provocative story about the evolution of a marriage, the nature of partnership, the question of a male or female sensibility, and the place for an ambitious woman in a man's world.

The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband Joseph is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg Wolitzer flashes back to Smith College and Greenwich Village in the 1950s and follows the course of the marriage that has brought the couple to this breaking point??one that results in a shocking revelation.

With her skillful storytelling and pitch-perfect observations, Wolitzer has crafted a wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make??in marriage, work, and life… (altro)

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I had the very great pleasure of meeting Meg Wolitzer at the Iceland Writers Retreat, where she taught an excellent workshop to we starry-eyed writers.
So I knew I liked her personally, but that may or may not translate into loving her writing.
But It did! I so loved this book that I spent an entire summer Saturday reading it, choking from time to time as she so aptly described being married to “a big man”. I wish my mum-in-law was still alive to share this with.
In this book, Wolitzer accurately and succinctly pulls chunks of reality out of her character’s lives, holding them up to view. Anyone who has spent their married life supporting their partner’s career at the expense of their own will immediately relate. There’s pride, but there is also envy, anger, and frustration. The unfairness of being held to promises made while young, while your partner is not...and the heartbreak of the children, abandoned... well, it’s all pretty familiar!

Wolitzer writes with humour and kindness. The woman in this story can find understanding and sympathy for her great man, even as she suffers life with him. The children are sympathetic and knowing. The fellow writers reminded me of the first day at the IWR, all of us jockeying for position!

This is a very true book, in the way only good fiction can be. Highly recommended! ( )
  Dabble58 | Nov 11, 2023 |
Powerful, introspective look at a marriage. ( )
  schoenbc70 | Sep 2, 2023 |
Joseph Castleman is a well-known novelist married to Joan Castleman. Joan has been with her husband since leaving college for the love of her professor. He is a literature professor and has told her that she has a lot of talent.
They get together, which undoes Joe's marriage to his wife. They also have a small daughter.
Joan goes through her life being Joe's right hand. She watches as he writes, wins awards, gets full of himself, etc.
You will be drawn right in with the first sentence of the book. ( )
  JReynolds1959 | Sep 11, 2022 |
This is another Now Read This book group read and the first time I have read anything by Meg Wolitzer. I am glad I did and I will not hesitate to pick up more of her books, especially if they are this good. I will admit, a lot of my rating has to do with my surprise at how much I enjoyed it. Others who read more contemporary fiction than I do may find my star rating generous.

Also, the narrative structure of relating many past incidents, catching the reader up, as it were, even though the story starts at it's endpoint was a really effective way of telling the story. I felt like I was sitting in a cafe or bar and having an evening's deep discussion with Joan.

I think I can call the sci-fi/fantasy bubble I used to live in, officially broken. I like that I can pick-up and read just about anything that gets suggested to me and enjoy it. Meg Wolitzer wholly engrossed me in her writing style and the story resonated with me because of the age of the two main characters, Joe and Joan, even though they are a generation older than I am.

It is interesting to compare and contrast The Wife with another book I am currently reading, [b:A Shooting Star|267215|A Shooting Star|Wallace Stegner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386921934s/267215.jpg|659] by [a:Wallace Stegner|157779|Wallace Stegner|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1252177524p2/157779.jpg] which is also about a marriage and marital infidelity. I guess there will be more to say when I finish it.

The Goodreads blurb about this book states, "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." I can't say this any better. The Wife allowed me to think a lot about the choices I made and my wife made along the way....the points of agreement and disagreement, the failures and the successes...the disappointments and the acceptance.

Excellent book. ( )
  DarrinLett | Aug 14, 2022 |
Other than it was very depressing I liked it. I just saw the movie also. ( )
  wincheryl | Jun 20, 2022 |
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The moment I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusions of stillness and tranquility. Just like our marriage, I could have said, but why ruin everything right now?
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As a rule, the men who own the world are hyperactively sexual, though not necessarily with their wives.
All first wives are crazy-- violently and eye-rollingly so
Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to the Stop & Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life.
But it's their choice... They make a choice to be that kind of wife, that kind of mother. Nobody forces them anymore; that's all over now. We had a women's movement in America, we had Betty Friedan, and Gloria Steinem... We're in a whole new world now. Women are powerful.
Everyone needs a wife; even wives need wives. Wives tend; they hover. Their ears are twin sensitive instruments, satellites pricking up the slightest scrape of dissatisfaction. Wives bring broth, we bring paper clips, we bring ourselves and our pliant, warm bodies. We know just what to say to the men who for some reason have a great deal of trouble taking consistent care of themselves or anyone else.
'Listen,' we say. 'Everything will be okay.'
And then, as if our lives depend on it, we make sure it is.
'Ah, a Sarah Lawrence girl,' he said with pleasure, deciding at that moment she was a highly creative type, her hands damp with both acrylic paint from art class and ambrosia from some middle-of-the-night winter-solstice ritual."
New York City was a spectacular place in which to take a walk in the middle of the night if you were a young, ambitious, confident man.
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Meg Wolitzer brings her characteristic wit and intelligence to a provocative story about the evolution of a marriage, the nature of partnership, the question of a male or female sensibility, and the place for an ambitious woman in a man's world.

The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband Joseph is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg Wolitzer flashes back to Smith College and Greenwich Village in the 1950s and follows the course of the marriage that has brought the couple to this breaking point??one that results in a shocking revelation.

With her skillful storytelling and pitch-perfect observations, Wolitzer has crafted a wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make??in marriage, work, and life

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