The Ten-Year Nap
by Meg Wolitzer
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Author: Meg WolitzerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-27
ISBN: 1594489785
Number of pages: 351
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
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Book Review: Chick-lit for the desperate housewives
Summary: 2 Stars
I have to confess that this book isn't at all what I'd normally choose ... but I bought it (aargh, any chance of my money back?) on the strength of a fulsome recommendation of the author on the Persephone Books website.
But although (most of the time, not all of the time) I love Persephone Books, this is one of those authors on whom we part company.
Is it fair to call it chick-lit? It is superior chick-lit for the whinging yummy-mummy generation. Written from a very American perspective, these upper middle-class women have given up high-powered jobs to raise children - and are now wringing their hands about the choices they have made and doors that are now closed to them. It's a quick read, it's skilfully written, it's much more adept than most of its genre and I skipped through several chapters in the bath/on the train .. but, really, I simply didn't care much about these educated, wealthy women and their angst (even those who whinge about money are married to lawyers). You know what it's like, when you get pinioned at a party by the 'sad mummies', desperate for conversation, but they can't talk about anything but their kids and the local schools ... well, this is it in book form!
But one thing I did warm to, is that Wolitzer makes it clear that the world of work isn't everything it's cracked up to be, and that it's a big fat lie that everybody is blessed with some talent/passion/ambition.
Apparently, she hung around in a cafe on New York's east-side listening to desperate housewives' conversation ... and if anybody's interested, the Golden Horn where the mommies hang out in the book is really Three Guys at 89th and Madison.
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