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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sick of the lovelorn and unrequited: give me a woman who can't stand her husband, oddly enough, brought to my attention many years ago by my father, who always knows a a good author when he reads one, despite his congenital misogyny.  <br/><br/>I'm in love so far, complete love, like a Philip ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21114871">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book extraordinarily intersting.  As someone who has wrestled with the idea of the sense of self in a marriage, and what it might mean to lose that sense, this book perfectly reflects (though maybe not allays...) my fears.  <br/><br/>I think that in some ways, the history that unfolds...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2169653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this 220 page book in one evening and one morning. It's chick lit at the highest level and so well-written. The author sets you up for the twisted ending - that's all I'll say, but you don't really see it coming. I had to give it a 5 - it was that good. The narrator is a little too giving and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63649460">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was our next book club book at work, and I realize that the co-worker who suggested it has very similar reading tastes as I. The minute I started reading it, I immediately fell into it. The 1st lines reads something like, &quot;As we were 35,000 feet in the air n the way to Finland, I realized ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62148507">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[J. Courtney Sullivan picks The Wife by Meg Wolitzer<br/><br/>The Wife, Wolitzer's slim jewel of a novel, is the sort of book you could easily read in one sitting but wish would last all summer. Set partly at Smith College in the 1950s, it chronicles the life of a talented writer (and Smith grad) who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72023039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book. The only two drawbacks are that she used some strong profanity in parts and that from the beginning you can figure out the ending. However, the following passage makes up for it (I read it to my husband) &quot;Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65232283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great surprise.<br/>I thought it was going to be chick-lit but it was of a high caliber (not that chick-lit does not have its place or is always total schlock). This book was well written and the plot had lots of interesting twists. The narrator is a woman leaving her famous writer husba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40620562">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a really fun book to read. I'm not impressed with all of the book's reviewers. This book was not &quot;funny&quot; in the gut-wrenching way it came across in the reviews. It has an interesting twist and a heart-warming ending, perhaps an ending that only a married woman could quite understa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66085034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Deliciously written, sharp, and bleakly funny - but also profoundly disheartening. The underlying message can be summed up thusly: &quot;Being female and in a relationship sucks. But not as much as being female and trying to publish a novel.&quot; Methinks the author may have a tiny unresolved issue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43256195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's weird, because this book frets over competence vs. brilliance and the scope of the female writer vs. the male writer, and... it's, in my opinion, a competent book by a female writer.  Awkward.<br/><br/>Not to be flippant.  I was really engaged and think Wolitzer is a tremendously thoughtful w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34972629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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 th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28855564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alas, I was disappointed by <em>The Wife</em>...I liked <em>The Position</em> quite a bit, and I was interested to read a book about suppressed creativity, and the forces that can go about suppressing it...only to find out, of course, that the creativity in question was not suppressed! At all! In fact, it was richly ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21181550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the look at a long marriage between writer Joe Castleman and his wife Joan.  It starts when Joan is on the way to Finland with her husband to receive a writing award for her husband and she is thinking about ending her marriage.  She is tired of being pushed in the background while her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75115337">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-written and compelling story about a wife who, on the eve of her husband's acceptance of a major literary prize, decides, finally, to leave him.  She has subjugated her own writing career to his for 40 years and the story goes back over all the decisions she made over the years that culminated ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60427933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A loan from my sister, which I read fast, in a whimsy. Quick, sharp, acid.<br/>Cutting depictions of the pettiness, larceny and lechery particular to portions of the literary world.<br/>A disappointing ending. A fine simile on pg. 142. Often funny.<br/>“The Wife” raises—again, and doubly—...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38904012">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I grow tired of authors who impute feminism and sexual freedom into past generations.  The book's setting was partly in the 1950's, and the characters were portrayed with more of a 1990's worldview.  I'm pretty sure if real people thought and acted as these characters did in the 50's, there would ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69646648">more...</a>]]></body>
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