

The Uncoupling
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Narrator: Angela Brazil
Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2011
Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Narrator: Angela Brazil
Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 04/05/2011
Categories: Fiction, Women, Family Life
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.
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
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