- Fiction, Authorship, Authors' spouses, Married women
On the eve of her husband's receipt of a prestigious literary award, Joan Castleman, who has put her own writing ambitions on hold to support her husband, evaluates her choices and decides to end the marriage.
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Contemporary, spare, classical in form and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Meg Wolitzer
- First published
- May 31, 2004
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Grasset & Fasquelle, TusQuets, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Spanish, French, English, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780743456661
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“THE MOMENT I decided to leave him, the moment I thought, enough, we were thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean, hurtling forward but giving the illusion of stillness and tranquility.”
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