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New Releases by Meg Wolitzer

Meg Wolitzer is the author of Die Interessanten & Die Zehnjahrespause (2025), Die Ehefrau & Das weibliche Prinzip (2025), Millions of Maxes (2022), An Nachteule von Sternhai (2021), Fight of the Century (2021).

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Die Interessanten & Die Zehnjahrespause

release date: Aug 01, 2025
Die Interessanten & Die Zehnjahrespause
Zwei eindrucksvolle Gesellschaftsromane der preisgekrönten amerikanischen Autorin Meg Wolitzer – pointiert, lebensnah und mit feinem Gespür für weibliche Lebenswege Die Interessanten Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters will Julie Jacobsen nur noch eins: raus aus der Tristesse ihres provinziellen Zuhauses. Das Sommercamp an der Ostküste bedeutet für sie den Eintritt in eine neue Welt, die Welt der Kunst, Kreativität und Freiheit, verkörpert durch die interessantesten Menschen, denen sie je begegnet ist: Ethan, Jonah, Cathy, Ash und Goodman, fünf junge New Yorker, die sie wegen ihrer Schlagfertigkeit und ihres schwarzen Humors in ihre privilegierte Clique aufnehmen. Die Jahre und Jahrzehnte vergehen, aber nicht jeder der »Interessanten«, wie sie sich selbst nennen, kann aus seiner Begabung das machen, was er sich als Jugendlicher erträumte ... Meg Wolitzer zeigt an ihren Protagonisten die ganze Tragik und die ganze Komik der Existenz. Ein großer Roman über das Wesen der Kunst und der Freundschaft vor dem Panorama des Amerika der letzten vierzig Jahre. Die Zehnjahrespause In schöner Regelmäßigkeit kommen Amy, Roberta, Jill und Karen im »Golden Horn«, ihrem Stammlokal und Zufluchtsort im hektischen New Yorker Alltag, zusammen. Alle sind sie Mütter, Anfang vierzig und jede von ihnen kann ein Lied davon singen, wie es ist, wenn sich die Rückkehr in den Beruf als schwieriger erweist als gedacht. Trotz der besten Ausbildung. Und so plagen Amy Geldsorgen, Jills Doktorarbeit liegt auf Eis, und Roberta, die früher mal Künstlerin war, begnügt sich mit Bastelnachmittagen in der Grundschule. Allein Karen geht gelegentlich zu Vorstellungsgesprächen, allerdings vor allem, um im Training zu bleiben. Doch während ihre Kinder mit jedem Tag selbstständiger werden, müssen die vier neue Perspektiven finden. Zum Glück haben sie einander. Und das »Golden Horn«. Meg Wolitzer widmet sich in diesem Roman der Frau in ihrer Rolle als Mutter – und vier Menschen, aus deren Leben nicht das geworden ist, was sie sich erhofft hatten. Gewohnt pointiert und unterhaltsam erzählt sie in ›Die Zehnjahrespause‹ von häuslichem Glück, Unglück und allem, was dazwischen liegt.

Die Ehefrau & Das weibliche Prinzip

release date: Jun 01, 2025
Die Ehefrau & Das weibliche Prinzip
Zwei feministische Meisterstücke von der preisgekrönten amerikanischen Autorin Meg Wolitzer Die Ehefrau Joan Castleman hat für ihre Ehe alles geopfert – sogar ihr Talent. Sie ist die Frau des berühmten Schriftstellers Joe Castleman, dem nun der renommierte Helsinki-Preis verliehen werden soll. Für Joan ist das der Anlass, ihre Ehe zu rekapitulieren. In Erinnerungen kehrt sie zurück zum Anfang der Beziehung ins Amerika der Fünfzigerjahre – und weiter in die literarischen Zirkel der Achtziger. Seit vierzig Jahren steht sie in seinem Schatten. Bis sie eines Tages beschließt, dass sich alles ändern muss. Meg Wolitzer untersucht die Mechanismen einer zerrütteten Ehe mit hintergründigem Witz und einem meisterhaften Gespür für die Abgründe, die in ganz alltäglichen zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen liegen. ›Die Ehefrau‹ wurde mit Glenn Close in der Hauptrolle unter dem Titel ›Die Frau des Nobelpreisträgers – The Wife‹ verfilmt. Das weibliche Prinzip Die junge Studentin Greer Kadetsky – intelligent, talentiert, aber hoffnungslos schüchtern – wäre gerne anders: mutig, schlagfertig, selbstbewusst. Als sie auf die Frauenrechtlerin Faith Frank trifft, ahnt sie nicht, dass diese Begegnung den Eintritt in eine neue Welt markiert und zugleich ihr Leben, ihre Beziehungen und Überzeugungen auf eine harte Probe stellen wird. Mal mit funkelndem Witz, mal tief berührend und stets mit großer Empathie erzählt Meg Wolitzer von Macht in all ihren Facetten, von Feminismus, Liebe und Loyalität und beweist sich als hellwache Beobachterin unserer Zeit.

Millions of Maxes

release date: Jan 11, 2022
Millions of Maxes
Max discovers that uniqueness is more than just a name, in this funny, lively picture book debut by the bestselling author of The Interestings. Max''s room has his name all over it--on his blanket and night light and wall. His parents call him The One and Only Max. And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He''s not the one and only after all! How many Maxes are in the world?! Millions of Maxes? But when he decides to help one of the other Maxes find her missing toy, he discovers that there are other ways to be special, and that he can appreciate the specialness of his new Max friends just as much as his own. That night he dreams of the future adventures he''ll have with all of the Maxes he has yet to meet.

An Nachteule von Sternhai

release date: May 21, 2021

Fight of the Century

release date: Jan 19, 2021
Fight of the Century
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this “forceful, beautifully written” (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. On January 19, 1920, a small group of idealists and visionaries, including Helen Keller, Jane Addams, Roger Baldwin, and Crystal Eastman, founded the American Civil Liberties Union. A century after its creation, the ACLU remains the nation’s premier defender of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays “full of struggle, emotion, fear, resilience, hope, and triumph” (Los Angeles Review of Books) about landmark cases in the organization’s one-hundred-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in—Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona—need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now. Familiar or little-known, each case springs to vivid life in the hands of the acclaimed writers who dive into the history, narrate their personal experiences, and debate the questions at the heart of each issue. Hector Tobar introduces us to Ernesto Miranda, the felon whose wrongful conviction inspired the now-iconic Miranda rights—which the police would later read to the man suspected of killing him. Yaa Gyasi confronts the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, in which the ACLU submitted a friend of- the-court brief questioning why a nation that has sent men to the moon still has public schools so unequal that they may as well be on different planets. True to the ACLU’s spirit of principled dissent, Scott Turow offers a blistering critique of the ACLU’s stance on campaign finance. These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one hundred years remain as vital as ever today, and that we can never take our liberties for granted. Chabon and Waldman are donating their advance to the ACLU and the contributors are forgoing payment.

Das ist dein Leben

release date: Oct 13, 2020
Das ist dein Leben
Dottie Engels ist alleinerziehende Mutter – und im Amerika der Siebzigerjahre ein Star am Comedian-Himmel. Sie hat sich selbst zur Marke gemacht, reißt auf der Bühne Witze über ihr Übergewicht und ist damit zum Publikumsliebling avanciert. Ihre Töchter Opal, 11 Jahre alt, und Erica, 16, erleben Dottie, die zwischen Las Vegas, L.A. und ihrem Zuhause in New York hin und her jettet, häufiger im Fernsehen als im Alltag. Beiden fällt es nicht leicht, sich mit den Nebenrollen im glamourösen Leben ihrer Mutter abzufinden: Vor allem Erica reagiert mehr und mehr mit Ablehnung auf Dottie. Und während Opal und sie, jede für sich, ihren Platz im Leben suchen, gerät Dotties Karriere auf den absteigenden Ast. Die einander fremd gewordenen Schwestern müssen zusammenhalten, um die Krise ihrer Mutter und der ganzen Familie zu bewältigen. Mit viel Liebe für ihre Figuren zeichnet Meg Wolitzer das Porträt einer unkonventionellen Familie, erzählt vom Erwachsenwerden, dem Leben als Mutter und verhandelt Themen wie Körperlichkeit und weibliche Identität.

To Night Owl From Dogfish

release date: Apr 28, 2020
To Night Owl From Dogfish
From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters. Avery Bloom, who''s bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who''s fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads. When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends--and possibly, one day, even sisters. But things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. Now that they can''t imagine life without each other, will Bett and Avery (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and Dogfish) figure out a way to be a family?

La verità delle donne

release date: Sep 04, 2019
La verità delle donne
«Una coraggiosa narrazione sul potere. » Robinson - la Repubblica - Loredana Lipperini «Con un occhio attento alla disparità di genere, Meg Wolitzer illumina il complesso legame che esiste tra femminismo, ambizione e potere.» Vogue «Essenziale.» Library Journal «Una storia attualissima che affronta una delle questioni cardine del nostro tempo: come il femminismo si tramanda da una generazione all’altra.» The New York Times «Un romanzo acuto e intelligente che tutti dovremmo leggere.» Los Angeles Review of Books «Il femminismo di Meg Wolitzer è già un fenomeno pop.» la Repubblica - Raffaella De Santis Solo noi possiamo decidere del nostro destino. A volte abbiamo bisogno solo di una spinta per convincerci che possiamo essere tutto quello che vogliamo. È così anche per Greer Kadetsky. Come altre matricole, non ha ancora deciso quale strada intraprendere alla fine degli studi. Ma di una cosa è certa: vuole lasciare il segno. Si tratta solo di capire da dove cominciare. L’occasione per chiarirsi le idee le viene da una conferenza di Faith Frank, leggenda del femminismo americano. Le sue parole ispirate la aiutano a definire i contorni della propria ambizione: Greer vuole stare dalla parte delle donne e difenderne i diritti. Non ha dubbi che sia quello il suo destino e, perché si compia, è pronta a sfoderare tutta l’intraprendenza di cui è capace. Lavorando per l’associazione di cui Faith è presidente, impara a muoversi nell’universo delle lotte femministe e si impegna per dare una voce a tutte coloro che non ce l’hanno e per denunciare le ingiustizie di una società in cui sono ancora gli uomini a dominare. Ma proprio quando comincia a intravedere il suo posto nel mondo, Greer si rende conto che Faith non è la persona che credeva. Dietro un atteggiamento attivo non nasconde altro che arrivismo e sete di potere, proprio ciò contro cui Greer si batte. Forse per lei è arrivato il momento di affrancarsi. Di dare spazio alla parte di sé che finora è rimasta in ombra e adesso preme per venire allo scoperto. Solo seguendo le proprie idee potrà davvero fare qualcosa di buono. Perché nessuno può decidere al posto nostro quale sia il ruolo che ci spetta. Ancora prima dell’uscita, La verità delle donne ha attirato l’attenzione dei critici e della stampa internazionale che l’hanno definito un libro attualissimo, capace di smuovere le coscienze. Con una penna elegante e raffinata, Meg Wolitzer firma una potente storia di rivendicazione femminile che ci invita a riflettere su cosa significhi essere donne oggi. E ci insegna che il femminismo è un fenomeno in continua evoluzione, destinato ad assumere volti diversi a seconda delle sfide che si trova ad affrontare.

A persuasão feminina

release date: Jun 10, 2019
A persuasão feminina
Brilhante, ambiciosa e extremamente tímida, Greer Kadetsky, filha de ex-hippies, é uma jovem caloura em uma não tão brilhante universidade, enquanto Cory, filho de imigrantes portugueses e seu namorado desde o ensino médio, se matricula em Yale. Durante o primeiro fim de semana na faculdade, Greer decide ir a uma festa no campus, onde sofre assédio de um aluno veterano, conhecido por sempre sair impune das diversas acusações que coleciona. Mas é também na faculdade que Greer conhece a mulher que vai mudar a sua vida. Faith Frank, deslumbrante, elegante e persuasiva aos sessenta e três anos de idade, é um esteio do movimento feminista há décadas, uma figura inspiradora. Ao ouvir o discurso de Faith, na capela lotada do campus, Greer sente uma luz se acender em seu interior. Após a faculdade, enquanto Cory desponta no mercado financeiro internacional, Greer procura Faith, que a convida a transformar seu despertar em algo novo, oferecendo-lhe um emprego que a levará ao trabalho mais gratificante de toda a sua vida: a criação de uma fundação para capacitar e apoiar mulheres em todo o mundo. Com o tempo, Greer e Cory percebem que vão ter que pensar muito bem sobre aquilo que realmente querem. Em seus caminhos distintos, ambos precisarão enfrentar a complexidade da vida adulta, enquanto aos poucos se afastam do futuro que sempre imaginaram para si próprios. Com humor, sensibilidade e profunda inteligência, Meg Wolitzer desvela grandes descobertas sobre poder e influência, ego e lealdade, feminilidade e ambição em uma história comovente, que escrutina os ideais românticos que não paramos de perseguir pela vida afora: ideais que se relacionam não apenas com quem queremos estar, mas com quem queremos ser.

En kvinnas övertygelse

release date: Oct 30, 2018
En kvinnas övertygelse
MAKT, LOJALITET OCH BRUTNA FÖRTROENDEN Greer Kadetsky är en duktig flicka i en sömnig småstad. När hennes high school sweetheart antas till Princeton, medan hon själv – trots fantastiska betyg – hamnar på ett skitcollege, klamrar hon sig fast vid att det bara är några år tills de kan börja ett liv tillsammans. Sedan möter hon Faith Frank. En karismatisk feministikon i höga mockastövlar, med en röst som når långt utanför föreläsningssalen. Deras möte förändrar allt, åtminstone för Greer. Faith är mer upptagen av det emotionella bagage hon samlat på sig genom åren, och Greers idealiska pojkvän faller offer för en sköldpadda. En kvinnas övertygelse är en underhållande och mångbottnad berättelse om makt och ambitioner. Genom att blanda filosofiska frågor med knivskarpa iakttagelser och komplicerade relationer belyser den, precis som Meg Wolitzers tidigare roman The Wife, hur det egentligen är att vara kvinna i ett så kallat jämställt samhälle.

La buena esposa

release date: Oct 10, 2018
La buena esposa
«En La buena esposa están todos los ingredientes de las grandes novelas sobre los sentimientos: humor, ternura, penetración psicológica. Están también presentes muchas de las virtudes de los grandes novelistas: facilidad para la recreación de atmósferas, pulso narrativo, capacidad de observación, atención a los detalles, buenos diálogos, una prosa limpia que fluye con naturalidad...» El País «Triunfa en el tono y en la observación... Una novela alegre, con un inteligente punto de vista sobre el sexo y la vanidad literaria.» Lorrie Moore «Una prosa escrita con gran destreza y un final asombroso e inesperado: no se puede pasar por alto esta novela.» The Washington Post Joan Castleman acompaña a su marido, un famoso escritor norteamericano, a Helsinki, donde recibirá un prestigioso premio literario. Pero ya en el avión nos enteramos de que ha decidido dejarle: está harta de él y de su egolatría. Al mismo tiempo empieza a rememorar cómo lo conoció en la universidad cuando era uno de sus profesores, sus cuarenta años de matrimonio y todos los sacrificios que ha hecho anteponiendo las necesidades de él a las suyas propias. En un texto muy ágil, típico de Meg Wolitzer, se van desarrollando a la vez la historia del triunfo literario de Joe y la de su pasión por las mujeres. Destaca la agudeza con la que la autora describe el ambiente literario, con sus envidias y sus traiciones. Esta visión intencionada y penetrante, junto con la elaborada voz en primera persona, convierte La buena esposa en una novela original, ágil y de singular interés.

Das weibliche Prinzip

release date: Jul 16, 2018
Das weibliche Prinzip
Die schüchterne Greer Kadetsky ist noch nicht lange auf dem College, als sie der Frau begegnet, die ihr Leben für immer verändern soll: Faith Frank. Die charismatische Dreiundsechzigjährige gilt seit Jahrzehnten als Schlüsselfigur der Frauenbewegung, und sie ist das, was Greer gerne wäre: unerschrocken, schlagfertig, kämpferisch. So sehr Greer ihren Freund Cory liebt und sich auf die gemeinsame Zukunft freut, wird sie doch von einer Sehnsucht umgetrieben, die sie selbst kaum benennen kann. Durch die Begegnung mit Faith Frank bricht etwas in der jungen Frau auf, und sie stellt sich die entscheidenden Fragen: Wer bin ich, und wer will ich sein? Jahre später, Greer hat den Abschluss hinter sich, geschieht, wovon sie nie zu träumen gewagt hätte: Faith lädt sie zu einem Vorstellungsgespräch nach New York ein − und führt Greer damit auf den abenteuerlichsten Weg ihres Lebens: einen verschlungenen, manchmal steinigen Weg, letztlich den Weg zu sich selbst. Mal mit funkelndem Witz, mal tief berührend und stets mit großer Empathie erzählt Meg Wolitzer von Macht in all ihren Facetten, von Feminismus, Liebe und Loyalität und beweist sich als hellwache Beobachterin unserer Zeit. »Wenn alles gesagt ist, bleibt Wolitzers unerschöpfliche Fähigkeit, Menschen zu erschaffen, die so real sind wie die Schrift auf dieser Seite, und ihre Liebe zu ihren Charakteren scheint heller als jede Agenda.« Lena Dunham in The New York Times

The Female Persuasion

release date: May 22, 2018
The Female Persuasion
Greer Kadetsky met Faith Frank in October of 2006 at Ryland College, where Faith had come to deliver the Edmund and Wilhelmina Ryland Memorial Lecture; and though that night the chapel was full of students, some of them boiling over with loudmouthed commentary, it seemed astonishing but true that out of everyone there, Greer was the one to interest Faith. Greer, a freshman then at this undistinguished school in southern Connecticut, was selectively and furiously shy. She could give answers easily, but rarely opinions. Which makes no sense, because I am stuffed with opinions. I am a piñata of opinions, she''d said to Cory during one of their nightly Skype sessions since college had separated them. She''d always been a tireless student and a constant reader, but she found it impossible to speak in the wild and free ways that other people did. For most of her life it hadn''t mattered, but now it did. So what was it about her that Faith Frank recognized and liked? Maybe, Greer thought, it was the possibility of boldness, lightly suggested in the streak of electric blue that zagged across one side of her otherwise ordinary furniture-brown hair. But plenty of college girls had hair partially dipped the colors of frozen and spun treats found at county fairs. Maybe it was just that Faith, at sixty-three a person of influence and a certain level of fame who had been traveling the country for decades speaking ardently about women''s lives, felt sorry for eighteen-year-old Greer, who was hot-faced and inarticulate that night. Or maybe Faith was automatically generous and attentive around young people who were uncomfortable in the world. Greer didn''t really know why Faith took an interest. But what she knew for sure, eventually, was that meeting Faith Frank was the thrilling beginning of everything. It would be a very long time before the unspeakable end.

Die Ehefrau

release date: Sep 21, 2016
Die Ehefrau
Joan Castleman hat ihrem Mann alles geopfert – sogar ihr Talent. Sie führt ein Leben in zweiter Reihe, ein Leben als Mutter und Muse. Sie ist die Frau des berühmten Schriftstellers Joe Castleman. Einst war er ihr Dozent für Kreatives Schreiben und sie seine begabteste Studentin. Ihm zuliebe hat sie ihre Karriere aufgegeben. Nun, Jahre später, steht Joe vor der Krönung der seinen: Ihm soll der renommierte Helsinki-Preis verliehen werden. Für Joan ist das der Anlass, während des langen Fluges zur Preisverleihung ihre Ehe zu rekapitulieren. Sie nimmt den Leser mit an den Anfang der Beziehung ins Amerika der Fünfzigerjahre – und führt ihn in die literarischen Zirkel der Achtzigerjahre. Vor allem aber hinterfragt sie ihre Rolle als Ehefrau, in der sie Joe hassen gelernt hat – nicht nur seiner zahlreichen Seitensprünge wegen. Die eigentliche Demütigung ist ganz anderer Natur ... Mit hintergründigem Witz entwickelt Meg Wolitzer die Psychologie einer zerrütteten Ehe mit einem meisterhaften Gespür für die Abgründe, die in ganz alltäglichen zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungen liegen. ›Die Ehefrau‹ wurde mit Glenn Close und Jonathan Pryce in den Hauptrollen unter dem Titel ›Die Frau des Nobelpreisträgers – The Wife‹ verfilmt.

Les intéressants

release date: Apr 06, 2016
Les intéressants
En 1974, Julie passe son été à Spirit-in-the-Wood, une colonie de vacances. Elle y rencontre un groupe de cinq adolescents qui se sont baptisés « les Intéressants » : Ethan, un surdoué des films d’animation ; Goodman et sa soeur Ash, jeunes New-Yorkais bien nés ; Jonah, le fils d’une célèbre chanteuse folk, icône de la contre-culture, et enfin Cathy, qui rêve de devenir danseuse. Le roman suit leur vie pendant quarante ans. Ethan épousera Ash. Ensemble, ils connaîtront la réussite et les drames. Goodman devra faire face à la justice. Jonah se détournera de la musique. Et Julie ? Julie se cherchera pendant de longues années et racontera leur histoire à tous.

Wyjatkowi

release date: Jan 01, 2016

Die Stellung

release date: Aug 21, 2015
Die Stellung
Mitte der Siebzigerjahre erschüttert ein Buch die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit: Der Sex-Ratgeber ›Pleasuring. Die Reise eines Paares zur Erfüllung‹ ist in aller Munde. Ungünstig nur, dass die Autoren, das Ehepaar Mellow, vier minderjährige Kinder haben. Die müssen sich nun damit auseinandersetzen, dass Vater und Mutter in aller Öffentlichkeit ihr tabuloses Liebesleben beschreiben. Und das Schlimmste: Das Buch zeigt sie in sehr detailreichen Zeichnungen – in jeder nur denkbaren Stellung. Während die Ehe der Eltern den Bach runtergeht, versuchen die Kinder, irgendwie mit diesem Gipfel der Peinlichkeit klar¬zukommen. Denn ›Pleasuring‹ wird zu einem Buch, das jeder, wirklich jeder kennt und das die Mellow-Geschwister ihr Leben lang begleiten wird ... ›Die Stellung‹ ist ein tragikomisches Familienporträt, das davon erzählt, wie vier Geschwister, denen wenig Illusionen über Liebe und Sex geblieben sind, sich in der Welt behaupten. Gleichzeitig führt uns Meg Wolitzer gnadenlos vor Augen, dass wir einer Sache nicht entfliehen können: Wir sind die Kinder unserer Eltern.

Interesanţii

release date: Jan 01, 2015

Sleepwalking

release date: Mar 25, 2014
Sleepwalking
The debut novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion, a story of three college students’ shared fascination with poetry and death, and how one of them must face difficult truths in order to leave her obsession behind. Published when she was only twenty-three and written while she was a student at Brown, Sleepwalking marks the beginning of Meg Wolitzer’s acclaimed career. Filled with her usual wisdom, compassion and insight, Sleepwalking tells the story of the three notorious “death girls,” so called on the Swarthmore campus because they dress in black and are each absorbed in the work and suicide of a different poet: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Wolitzer’s creation Lucy Asher, a gifted writer who drowned herself at twenty-four. At night the death girls gather in a candlelit room to read their heroines’ work aloud. But an affair with Julian, an upperclassman, pushes sensitive , struggling Claire Danziger—she of the Lucy Asher obsession-–to consider to what degree her “death girl” identity is really who she is. As she grapples with her feelings for Julian, her own understanding of herself and her past begins to shift uncomfortably and even disturbingly. Finally, Claire takes drastic measures to confront the facts about herself that she has been avoiding for years.

De interessanten

release date: Jan 29, 2014
De interessanten
Verpletterende literaire roman over volwassen worden, afgunst en spijt, door een van de meest ingenieuze schrijvers van Amerika Op een zomerkamp in 1974 sluiten de vijftienjarige Jules Jacobsen en vijf leeftijdgenoten een levenslange vriendschap. Jules van eenvoudige komaf is enorm onder de indruk van haar creatieve en welgestelde nieuwe vrienden. Het groepje tieners dat zichzelf De Interessanten noemt is onafscheidelijk en deelt elkaars dromen over een leven als kunstenaar, acteur of schrijver: later als ze groot, volwassen en vooral succesvol zijn. Maar de reis van jeugd tot middelbare leeftijd loopt heel anders, vol compromissen, geheimen, leugens en ongelijkheden. Al worden de grootse jeugdige ambities van de vriendengroep niet waargemaakt, er is geen weg terug naar hun onschuld. De vriendschap houdt stand, maar de tijd is onomkeerbaar en een groeiend gevoel van ongemak laat Jules niet los: geluk en voldoening blijken in andere dingen te liggen dan de vrienden als tieners ooit dachten. `De interessanten heeft een enorme reikwijdte, over vriendschap, jaloezie, de teleurstellingen die het ouder worden onherroepelijk met zich meebrengt [] Wolitzer excelleert in romantechnisch sterke wendingen NRC Handelsblad `Wolitzer geeft een scherp beeld van jaloezie, vriendschap en de omstandigheden die maken dat de een wel succesvol wordt en de ander niet Elle

The Interestings

release date: Apr 09, 2013
The Interestings
Named a best book of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Time, and The Chicago Tribune, and named a notable book by The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post “Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review "A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer''s place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She''s every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn''t women''s fiction. It''s everyone''s."—Entertainment Weekly (A) From Meg Wolitzer, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Female Persuasion, a novel that has been called "genius" (The Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan). The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful—true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.

La città delle ribelli

release date: Apr 04, 2012
La città delle ribelli
Smettere di fare l''amore con i propri uomini per ritrovare la felicità. La vera felicità. Questa è la strategia che le donne di Stellar Plains, nel New Jersey, adottano, più o meno consapevolmente, per ritrovare sé stesse e i loro desideri. Una dopo l''altra iniziano a rifiutare qualsiasi contatto con i loro compagni. Nessuna vuole essere sfiorata: ogni bacio, ogni carezza vengono accuratamente evitati. Un vento freddo inizia a soffiare tra le lenzuola di ogni camera da letto. L''ispirazione per la rappresaglia è data da Fran Heller, la nuova, anticonvenzionale professoressa di teatro del liceo, che ha deciso di mettere in scena Lisistrata, la commedia di Aristofane in cui le cittadine ateniesi si uniscono in uno sciopero del sesso per protestare contro i loro mariti e contro la guerra. Eppure Stellar Plains sembra un luogo felice. Niente turba la serenità delle coppie che vi abitano. O almeno così appare. D''altro canto Dory e Robby Lang, insieme dai tempi dell''università, dicono di amarsi come il primo giorno, ma stanno scivolando verso una stanca sopportazione; la moglie del preside è afflitta da una sindrome di stanchezza cronica, mentre il marito se la intende con la consulente scolastica; Ruth, la neosposa, ha sempre più evidenti problemi di peso. Un quadro allarmante, fatto di nevrosi quotidiane, piccoli screzi, rancori sopiti da anni. Gli uomini fingono di non vedere le crepe celate dietro le facciate linde e ordinate e le erbacce che infestano le aiuole immacolate. E allora è compito delle donne guardare la realtà in faccia, riprendere in mano il loro destino e combattere la battaglia per salvare le coppie, e la passione delle loro notti. Dopo La stagione delle cattive madri, per mesi nella lista dei bestseller del «New York Times», Meg Wolitzer ci regala un romanzo pungente che da subito è stato acclamato dalla critica e dal pubblico americani. La città delle ribelli usa l''ironia come un bisturi e penetra nelle camere da letto in punta di piedi, svelandoci i segreti e i desideri nascosti di ogni donna.

The Uncoupling

release date: Jan 01, 2011
The Uncoupling
In the wake of a drama teacher''s decision to direct Lysistrata for the high school play, the women in the town begin to sexually reject their husbands and boyfriends in ways that force both men and women to reevaluate their views on relationships and sexuality. By the best-selling author of The Ten-Year Nap. 75,000 first printing.

Surrender, Dorothy

release date: Aug 24, 2010
Surrender, Dorothy
From the New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a “devastatingly on target” (Elle) novel about a young woman''s accidental death and its effect on her family and friends. For years, Sara Swerdlow was transported by an unfettered sense of immortality. Floating along on loving friendships and the adoration of her mother, Natalie, Sara''s notion of death was entirely alien to her existence. But when a summer night''s drive out for ice cream ends in tragedy, thirty-year-old Sara—"held aloft and shimmering for years"—finally lands. Mining the intricate relationship between love and mourning, acclaimed novelist Meg Wolitzer explores a single, overriding question: who, finally, "owns" the excruciating loss of this young woman—her mother or her closest friends? Depicting the aftermath of Sara''s shocking death with piercing humor and shattering realism, Surrender, Dorothy is the luminously thoughtful, deeply moving exploration of what it is to be a mother and a friend, and, above all, what it takes to heal from unthinkable loss.

The Ten-Year Nap

release date: Mar 27, 2008
The Ten-Year Nap
The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion that woke up critics, book clubs, and women everywhere. For a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood, but it wasn’t always that way. Growing up, they had been told that their generation would be different. And for a while this was true. They went to good colleges and began high-powered careers. But after marriage and babies, for a variety of reasons, they decided to stay home, temporarily, to raise their children. Now, ten years later, they are still at home, unsure how they came to inhabit lives so different from the ones they expected—until a new series of events begins to change the landscape of their lives yet again, in ways they couldn’t have predicted. Written in Meg Wolitzer’s inimitable, glittering style, The Ten-Year Nap is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of its women with candor, wit, and generosity. Meg Wolitzers''s newest book, The Interestings, is now available from Riverhead Books.

The Position

release date: Jun 13, 2006
The Position
Thirty years after their parents wrote a sex guide for couples during the 1970s sexual revolution, four siblings explore the ways in which their parents'' sexuality has affected their lives and argue over whether or not to reissue the book.

The Wife

release date: Apr 13, 2004
The Wife
Meg Wolitzer''sprevious books includeSleepwalking, This Is Your Life,andSurrender, Dorothy.She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

Friends for Life

release date: Jan 01, 1994
Friends for Life
A look at the unwinding of friendships with age. The protagonists are four women and their break up begins when one moves out of town. Another quits when someone makes a nasty remark about her husband. Eventually, they get together for one of those reunions where people pretend nothing has changed.
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