The Uncoupling, Meg Wolitzer
The Uncoupling, Meg Wolitzer
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The Uncoupling

Author: Meg Wolitzer

Narrator: Angela Brazil

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/05/2011

Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life


Synopsis

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. Or, at least, over the women. 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. 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.

About Meg Wolitzer

American author, Meg Worlitzer, has been the first author to participate in a coast to coast book club discussion via Skype. That would seem to be a great way to promote her work most advantageously. The work discussed was The Uncoupling. Meg was born in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother was also a novelist and her dad, a psychologist. She graduated from Smith College and Brown University in creative writing. Her first writing was accomplished during undergrad, entitled, Sleepwalking, a tale of three college girls who were obsessed with poetry and death, and was published in 1982.

Her novels include: The Interestings, The Uncoupling, The Year Nap, The Position, The Wife, and Sleepwalking. These were all on the New York Times-bestselling list. She also co-authored a cryptic crossword book, and has taught creative writing in several important venues. Three films have evolved from her writings, including This Is Your Life, scripted and directed by Nora Ephron.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ellie on May 14, 2024

2.75......more

Goodreads review by Snotchocheez on May 02, 2013

I kept Ms. Wolitzer's name on my mental backburner for several months now...not necessarily because of the recent release of her The Interestings (which three of my Goodreads friends have already read and favorably reviewed) but because of her jacket blurb endorsement on the back of Nicholson Baker'......more

Goodreads review by Jill on April 25, 2011

The Uncoupling is a good book that could have been a great book. It has some perceptive and provocative insights into the nature of desire itself: what is desire, anyway? How does it change between the heady times of first love and the more mundane times of adulthood? Can a relationship sustain itsel......more

Goodreads review by Cortney - on August 17, 2021

Interesting concept for a book, but I didn't love it. I don't think it's deserving of it's low rating though. If it sounds good to you, give it a read. It was a quick one.......more


Awards

  • Indie Next List