The Wife: A Novel

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 Cas...show more

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219 pages

Average rating: 6.61

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E Clou
May 10, 2023
8/10 stars
I like the psychology of this book. Right away you know the wife thinks her husband is an asshole, but you're not certain of all the dimensions of her distaste for him. By the end, I'd come to see it as more of a dance between the two of them. She is far from blameless in their arrangement, she gets something from it too, even if she chooses to blame her husband for it completely and not take much responsibility for what she chooses to do and wha...read more

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