“Lots of sharp insights…perfect comic timing. “A novel that tingles with playfulness and wicked observation.” INDEPENDENT As the women worry over their loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy, offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in a new light.Īs she did to such acclaim with the New York Times bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful lens. One by one throughout the high school community, perfectly healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons they don't really understand. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be cast over the school. The writing is astute and well realized, and the characters are distinct and authentic. From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about female desire. A fearless social anthropologist, Wolitzer examines the impact of this libido-sapping hex on the female staff of Eleanor Roosevelt High. 3/5 The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer is an examination of love, sex, and relationships, and while the majority of the novel is planted in reality, there are aspects of magic and mysticism which make the book what it is.
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