The Ten-Year Nap
by:
Meg Wolitzer (author)
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...
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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, and the friends wonder if it's time for a change...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781594489785 (1594489785)
ASIN: 1594489785
Publish date: March 27th 2008
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Pages no: 351
Edition language: English
Talk about napping...all I wanted to do while reading this was sleep. It was dry, and I didn't particularly care about any of the characters in the book. I don't know what the point was of going back in time after introducing each of the 4 main characters to going and telling the story of their mo...
I was going to try and tough it out and get through this book, but then it just kept going in strange directions and I couldn't identify with any of the women in the book. They seemed like an odd group, which I like odd characters, but there was no connection for some reason.I did like the title, h...
There's an interesting quirk in human nature that sometimes prompts us to immerse ourselves in other people's lives and stories when there are things in our own we're not up to dealing with. That may be one of the reasons, recognized or not, that some of us become avid readers, but I know that I've ...
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