Meg Wolitzer

«La inteligencia, el ingenio y el sentimiento profundo de la escritura de Wolitzer son extraordinarios.» Jeffrey EugenidesGreer Kadetsky es una tímida universitaria de primer curso cuando conoce a la

«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

Meg Wolitzer has established herself, intentionally or not, as the fiction laureate of feminist social politics with her previous two novels: The Wife, the story of a secret literary collaboration between an award-winning, philandering writer and his brilliant wife, and The Position, which reveals the lasting impact of the sexual revolution on the four children of a pair of cultural provocateurs. Thus, The Ten-Year Nap completes a trilogy of sorts, introducing four New York women who've opted out of their impressive careers to choose full-time motherhood and are finding themselves locked into what is now a familiar dilemma: how to be an ambidextrous Superwoman while negotiating a postnatal identity crisis. Lest readers think an F-word novel -- by which I mean "feminist" -- could only be humorless, unappealing, passé, or heavily weighed down with an agenda of some kind, they will be pleasantly disappointed by Wolitzer's droll, urbane wit and her spot-on depictions of women's lives amid the demanding, competitive, and exhilarating metropolis, as she dispels the media-perpetuated myth of the "post-feminist" era.

Wolitzer empieza esta provocadora e irresistible novela con Joan Castleman sentada junto a su marido Joseph, uno de los más importantes escritores americanos contemporáneos, a 35.000 pies de altura. Joseph -Joe-, que está a punto de recibir un prestigioso premio literario, no sabe que Joan tiene una sola idea:Tras este principio arrollador, nos explica la historia de sus cuarenta años como esposa, desdeque conoce a Joe en los años 50, mientras se consolida su carrera literaria y nacen sus hijos, hasta que consigue este prestigioso y codiciado premio que ha de ir a recoger a Helsinki. Después de todo este tiempo Joan se ha hartado de anteponer las necesidades de su marido a las suyas,sedacuentaque no lo necesita.Haretratado con inteligencia y ojo certero la vida ysentimientos de una mujer que ha hecho sacrificios muy importantes para conseguir la vida que ella creía que quería y que, se reduce a ocultar un secreto casi inimaginable.

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

Greer ne savait pas pourquoi Faith s’était intéressée à elle. Mais ce qu’elle sut plus tard, avec certitude, c’est que cette rencontre marqua le début palpitant de tout. »Greer Kadetsky est une étudi

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive there, while Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long she has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, whilst quietly being the keystone of his success. But behind the compromises, the disappointment and disillusionment there lies a secret…

Estamos en el verano de 1972 y es de noche. Seis adolescentes charlan en su tienda de campaña en un campamento de las afueras de Nueva York. Todos, menos Julie, son hijos de familias acomodadas de Manhattan. Todos se sienten unicos e interesantes. Todos quieren ser artistas. Los interesantes seguira a cada uno de ellos a lo largo de cuarenta años. El lector vivira como el paso del tiempo les obligara a negociar con la realidad. Compartira sus triunfos y sus desilusiones, el sexo, el amor y la vivencia de la enfermedad y la muerte de sus seres queridos. Aunque Julie es la protagonista de la novela, la magia de Los interesantes esta en como Meg Wolitzer consigue tramar la historia de cada uno de los amigos centrandose en los momentos en que su vida cambia definitivamente.Un mosaico de deseos y pasiones que nos mantiene pegados a las paginas. Una novela que ademas de ser bestseller de The New York Times ha sido definida como Genial (The Chicago Tribune), Fantastica (Vanity Fair), Ambiciosa (San Francisco Chronicle), y que, segun The New York Times Book Review, tiene la misma categoria de novelas como Libertad de Franzen o La trama nupcial de Jeffrey Eugenides.La inteligencia, el ingenio y la profunda emocion del estilo de Wolitzer son extraordinarios y con Los interesantes ha conseguido que todo lo que habia logrado hasta ahora, que era ya firme y notable, haya alcanzado un nivel todavia mas alto. Jeffrey EugenidesUna gran victoria... Los interesantes asegura a Wolitzer un lugar entre los mejores novelistas de su generacion... Entertainment Weekly

'The book was called Pleasuring: One Couple's Journey to Fulfillment. The title, when the children had first heard it and begun to understand it, was so incontestably mortifying that it threatened to stunt them forever, leaving them clocked in time and steadfast refusal to enter the adult world.' This is more or less what happens to Holly and Michael, Dashiell and Claudia, after they read the seminal book which their liberal parents Paul and Roz Mellow have written, a book that features tasteful pastel illustrations of their parents' lovemaking - and which has become a runaway bestseller. Thirty years later, when the children who have grown up in the shadow of these erotically charged parents are adults, and it looks as though the book may be reissued, we catch up individually with their conflicted, complicated 21st-century lives and those of the iconic couple whose marriage has not run as smoothly as it seemed set to do. The Jane Austen of sexual politics, with crackling intelligence, humour and a signature hint of suppressed rage, Meg Wolitzer takes us into the heart of a family that is dysfunctional in its very own way but heartbreakingly familiar.

For a group of four New York friends, the past ten years have been defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated to believe that they and their generation would conquer the world, they nonetheless left high-powered jobs to stay at home with their babies. What was intended as a temporary time-out has turned into a decade. Now at forty, with their kids growing up, Amy, Jill, Roberta and Karen wake up to a life and a future that is not what they intended. Illicit affairs, money problems, issues with children and husbands all rear their heads, as the friends wonder if it's time for a change.

On a warm July night in 1974 six teenagers play at being cool. The friendships they make this summer will be the most important and consuming of their lives. In a teepee at summer camp they smoke pot and drink vodka & Tangs, talk of Gunter Grass and the latest cassette tapes; they also share their dreams and ambitions, still so fresh and so possible. But decades later not everyone can sustain in adulthood what had seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and taken up engineering. Only Ethan's talent has endured. As their fortunes tilt precipitously over the years, some of them dealing with great struggle, others enjoying extraordinary wealth and success, friendships are put under the strain of envy and crushing disappointment. Against the backdrop of a changing America, from Nixon's resignation to Obama's new world, Wolitzer's panoramic tragicomedy asks how 'the Interestings' can be happy with being anything less than brilliant?

"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) The "New York Times"-bestselling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called "genius" ("The Chicago Tribune"), "wonderful" ("Vanity Fair"), "ambitious" ("San Francisco Chronicle"), and a "page-turner" ("Cosmopolitan"), which "The New York Times Book Review "says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom" and Jeffrey Eugenides "The Marriage Plot."" 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.

What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike?For the people of Stellar Plains, the staging of a new school production of an Athenian drama coincides with a mysterious cold wind that blows into houses and into hearts, stilling passion and cooling sheets.

Greer Kadetsky is a shy college student when she meets the woman who will shape her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant, has been a pillar of the women's movement for decades. Hearing Faith speak for the first time, in a crowded campus chapel, Greer feels herself changed.Then, astonishingly, Faith invites her to make something out of this new sense of purpose, leading her down a thrilling path as it winds towards and away from her meant-to-be love story with high school sweetheart Cory and the future she had always imagined. Expansive and wise, compassionate and witty, The Female Persuasion is about the spark we all believe is flickering inside us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time.

Joan Castleman, mujer de un famoso escritor norteamericano, acompaña a su marido a Helsinki, donde posiblemente le den un premio literario casi tan importante como el Nobel. Ya en el avión, el lector se entera de que pase lo que pase, despues de toda una

Greer Kadetsky es una tímida universitaria de primer curso cuando conoce a la mujer que espera que cambie su vida, Faith Frank, deslumbrante, persuasiva e inteligente, líder durante décadas del movimiento feminista. Trabajara para ella en una fundacion ha

Una novela ambiciosa e imprescindible. Estamos en 1972 en un campamento de verano en las afueras de Nueva York y asistimos a la conversación de seis amigos en la que todos, menos Julie, son hijos