Wife 22: A Novel
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品牌: Melanie Gideon
基本信息出版社:Ballantine Books (2012年5月29日)精装:400页正文语种:英语ISBN:034552795X条形码:9780345527950商品重量:662 gASIN:034552795X您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介For fans of Helen Fielding’s
Bridget Jones’s Diaryand Allison Pearson’sI Don’t Know How She Does Itcomes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What youcan’thave. What youshouldn’thave.
32. That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days, I’m also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m too busy answering questions.
As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.媒体推荐Advance praise forWife 22
“Wife 22is absolutely fresh, vibrant, au courant, and hilarious. As you read, you will swear that this deft novelist hacked your phone and unearthed your longtime marital secrets and maternal struggles with a keen ear and an open heart. Brilliant! Melanie Gideon owns the moment with this debut.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author ofThe Shoemaker’s Wife
“Refreshing, original, and crackling with energy,Wife 22is a brilliant, engrossing novel about the way we love and live now. Prepare to be dazzled.”—Elin Hilderbrand, author ofSummerland
“Absolutely delicious! What Bridget Jones did for single women, Alice Buckle will do for married ones. Melanie Gideon’sWife 22is a fabulously funny contemplation of relationships and parenthood in the twenty-first century.”—Meg Waite Clayton, author ofThe Four Ms. BradwellsandThe Wednesday Sisters
“Well, isn’tthisa fun read! Not only fun, but funny. Not only funny, but wildly inventive. Not only wildly inventive, but poignant.Wife 22is also wise in matters of the heart. Melanie Gideon could put marriage counselors out of business.”—Elizabeth Berg,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Last Time I Saw You
“The delightful, compulsively readableWife 22manages to be both funny and thought-provoking on the eternal question: After many years of marriage, how do two people keep their love vital? Alice Buckle’s hilarious search for greater happiness will resonate with readers of all backgrounds.”—Gretchen Rubin,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Happiness Project
“Wife 22is not just clever, it is a funny, wise, and ultimately tender and revealing portrait of contemporary family life, of a marriage, and of a wife and mother and her all-important circle of friends in midlife straits. Every woman who has ever Googled herself, Facebooked her children, or simply wondered, ‘what if?’ will come to cheer and adore this particularly winsome wife.”—Mary Kay Andrews
