Wifey
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780333259979 (0333259971)
Publish date: January 1st 1979
Publisher: G.P.putnam's Sons
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Novels,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Erotica,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
The first Judy Blume book I read in too many years and it was just as beautiful and wonderful as I had remembered her books to be.
Wifey is the anti-romance. No sympathetic characters, no personal growth, no love, no happy ending. A common theme of romance novels is individuals helping one another to heal emotional wounds. These may result from childhood trauma or abuse, oppression by family members or society in general on th...
This book is the outtakes from every David Lynch movie. Not the blooper reel, but the scenes that Lynch cut to shave some minutes or just because they were unnecessary and boring. It is, in that way, a found-art piece of all the scraps of daily life and all the momentous decisions people make to b...
(A quick aside, thanks to Elizabeth for helping me with this review. I didn't like this book, which should by all rights garner it a one-star, but this book is much more complex and crazy-making than that, so I'm bumping it up to three. I can't say I recommend it to anyone, but it's been an interest...
That something published in 1978 seems more believable, realistic and relatable than most books on the market today says a lot. It's also more depressing with widespread racism, elitism and repression/suppression. It doesn't romanticise love, sex or marriage, but rather spotlights things as how they...
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