The Wife: Library Edition

from etxgardener

It's hard to write a review of this book without giving away the plot. Suffice it to say that a young woman falls for her creative writing professor at Smith College and runs off with him after their affair is discovered by his wife. She is really smarter than her rather boorish and supercilious ...

from fromthecomfychair

The story of a woman who makes her writer husband a success at the expense of her own talent. Meg Wolitzer's depiction of a 1950s Smith College girl who falls for her writing professor and ends up spending the next forty years supporting him while he rises to the heights of literary acclaim. She ...

from sidiki

Engaging and entertaining. I thank god the Wife is the first novel of Wolitzer I read. Love to read novels about lives of writers and intellectuals and the relationship with their spouses. Absolutely my kind of book. Yes Joan is flawed and makes mistakes that's what makes her believable. From you...

from voracia

The beginning of this book really grabbed me. The voice was moving and the early plot was interesting: a woman is on an airplane with the husband she had been with for a long time, and has decided at that very moment to leave him. Of course, such a decision is never made at that very moment. A lo...

from mhgatti

Meg Wolitzer's short story work was one of the reasons that I picked up her latest novel, The Wife. I'm glad I did. The Wife is a full-length novel written in the concise style of a short story. The novel deals with the sacrifices made by the wife of a famous (and womanizing) author. Although the...