The Ten-Year Nap - Hardcover

Wolitzer, Meg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594489785 ISBN 13: 9781594489785

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover, 2008

Synopsis

Ten years after leaving high-power jobs to raise their children, four New York friends enter their forties while struggling with the differences between their past ideals and their present realities, a situation that become turbulent when one of them meets a successful working mother of three who seems to have it all. 40,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Meg Wolitzers novels include The Wife, The Position, and the New York Times bestsellers The Ten-Year Nap and The Interestings. She lives in New York City.

From AudioFile:

Meg Wolitzer's very entertaining new novel explores the linked lives of four New York women friends who find themselves more or less stranded in a version of their lives they don't recognize--a doldrum when the intensity of raising infants is over. But they've been out of the workforce so long they don't know who they are except wives and mothers. Wolitzer knows the territory cold, her ear for dialogue is impeccable, and she's created a marvelous kaleidoscope of personalities linked in a pattern that changes as we watch. Alyssa Bresnahan's performance is nuanced, well paced, and sympathetic, and her voice is lovely. But doesn't anyone in the studio have a biographical dictionary? If Freud is pronounced "froid," is Freund rendered as "froond" even a good guess? B.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594489785
• ISBN 13: 9781594489785
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 351