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  • Published: 6 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473567184
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 9 min
  • Narrator: Dawn Harvey

The Wife

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Paperback
1 Oct 2004
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22 Jan 2015
Audiobook
6 Sept 2018
Paperback
26 July 2018
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The tie-in edition for the major motion picture starring Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce and Christian Slater

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Wife by Meg Wolitzer, read by Dawn Harvey.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE coming in September 2018 starring GLENN CLOSE

A husband. A wife. A secret. Behind any great man, there’s always a greater woman.

Joe and Joan Castleman are on an aeroplane, 35,000 feet above the ocean. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he is about to receive and Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long Joan has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, subjugating her own talents and quietly being the keystone of his success.

The Wife is an acerbic and astonishing take on a marriage from its public face to the private world behind closed doors. Wolitzer has masterfully created an expose of lives lived in partnership and the truth that behind the compromises, dedication and promise inherent in marriage there so often lies a secret...
  • Published: 6 September 2018
  • ISBN: 9781473567184
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 8 hr 9 min
  • Narrator: Dawn Harvey
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About the author

Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer is the New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Ten-Year Nap, The Female Persuasion, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. She is also the author of the young adult novel Belzhar. Wolitzer lives in New York City.
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Also by Meg Wolitzer

The Interestings
The Female Persuasion
The Uncoupling
The Ten-Year Nap
The Position
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Praise for The Wife

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