- horror tales, conspiracy, photographers, satire
The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and young mother who suspects the submissive housewives in her new idyllic Connecticut neighborhood may be robots created by their husbands. Also contained in: - [Reader's Digest Condensed Books. Volume 1 - 1973](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16036164W) - [Three by Ira Levin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16660211W)
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- Author
- Ira Levin
- First published
- 1972
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Incorporated, Perennial, Klett Sprachen GmbH
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- Spanish, slo, English, German
- ISBN
- 9781842622070
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“THE WELCOME WAGON lady, sixty if she was a day but working at youth and vivacity (ginger hair, red lips, a sunshine-yellow dress), twinkled her eyes and teeth at Joanna and said, You're really going to like it here!"”
Ira Levin was born in 1929 in New York City and is a graduate of New York University. He wrote television plays and short stories and, when he was twenty-two, A Kiss Before Dying. After two years of military service he turned to playwriting; No Time for Sergeants, adapted from Mac Hyman's novel was his most successful stage work, but his favorite is a musical called Drat! The Cat! for which he wrote the book and lyrics. Its early closing sent him back to novel writing, and the outcome was the diabolical chiller Rosemary's Baby. He has since written another play, Dr. Cook's Garden, filmed by Paramount Pictures in 1971, and he is nearing completon of another novel. He lives in Manhattan, is di
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