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Title	:	The Ten-Year Nap
Author	:	Meg Wolitzer
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 351 pages
Published	:	March 27th 2008 by Riverhead Hardcover
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary

The Ten-Year Nap

Meg Wolitzer

Hardcover | Pages: 351 pages

Rating: 3.03 | 9326 Users | 1678 Reviews

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From the bestselling author of The Wife and The Position, a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage-and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work.

For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left jobs as corporate lawyers, investment bankers, and film scouts to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them and without professions to define them, Amy, Jill, Roberta, and Karen face a life that is not what they were brought up to expect but seems to be the one they have chosen.

But when Amy gets to know a charismatic and successful working mother of three who appears to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of having it all-work, love, family-without having to give anything up, a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. As Amy's obsession with this woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they've made in opting out of their careers-until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.

Written in Meg Wolitzer's inimitable, glittering style, The Ten-Year Nap is wickedly observant, knowing, provocative, surprising, and always entertaining, as it explores the lives of these women with candor, wit, and generosity.

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Original Title:	The Ten-Year Nap
ISBN:	1594489785 (ISBN13: 9781594489785)
Edition Language:	English

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DNF. I really enjoyed The Wife but found this plot to drag. Found myself tuning out and not at all engaging with the story.

I read this quickly and with infatuation with the sentences, the pacing, and overall construction. Things are being Said, with that big S, but also being said with the quiet little s, too. Parenthood is described with a particular fullness, and marriage is explored with range. The movement in time and lineages creates layers of culpability--ultimately there is not one thing allowed to be blamed for unhappiness. And, this book is funny! Samples: "And then she had stopped herself from such

I absolutely adore Meg Wolitzer! She is, perhaps, one of the most amazingly astute, proufoundly incisive, and brilliantly comic authors writing today. I still think "The Wife" is her most realized book to date, but "The Ten-Year Nap" is her most ambitious and, in many ways, the best novel she has written. Not only are the characters in this book thoroughly fleshed-out and spectacular in depth and coloration, but the writing is also so rich and so nuanced that I found myself savoring what the

Meh. I though the subject matter had some potential but all of these characters were unlikable. Wah-wah-wah, my life is so boring, should I have been a stay-at-home-mom?I found myself dreading and not caring to read this book, because getting to know these characters lead to nowhere. The plot does not grab, and there are some haphazard short-story-like chapters thrown in that didnt add very much. Redeeming moments are few and far between. I cant believe I actually read the whole thing. It took

Chapters in this novel alternate between the modern-day lives of a group of women in New York City, all of whom have left careers behind to raise their children, and stories of their mothers or other women from an earlier generation, all of whom are feminists in their own way.Wolitzer is telling us two things, I think. First, by contrasting the lives of mothers in the 1960s and '70s with those of their daughters in the late '90s and early 21st century, Wolitzer asks questions about what happened

The "ten-year nap" of Meg Wolitzer's title is the ten years that each of her female protagonists spends as an at-home mother. And before I review this book, I just want to say this: NAP??? Really, Meg Wolitzer? What an unbelievable insult to every woman (and man) who has worked her tail off caring for infants, toddlers, pre-, middle- and high school-aged children.The reviewer at Salon suggests that Wolitzer's "one agenda" is to "tell the truth about the lives" of at-home mothers. If this is a

I really enjoyed this book. (I think I would give it 4 and a half stars.) In fact, I didn't want it to end. It felt like I was having a nice conversation with friends in the same position that I am--or I guess that I will be in about 10 years. The book is about four women in NYC that have given up careers to raise children and now their children are grown. The women are pretty realistic (except, one of the characters who seems a bit two-dimensional) and they are interesting. The book may have