The Uncoupling
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When the elliptical new drama teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Stellar Plains, New Jersey, chooses for the school play Lysistrata the Aristophanes comedy where women stop having sex with men in order to stop 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 partners, their shared history, and their sexual selves in a new light. Written with the sly humor and piercing intelligence that readers have come to expect from Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling tackles a difficult subject head-on and makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh and in the process gives her readers the chance to see their own lives through her insightful lens.
Author: Meg Wolitzer
Format: Paperback, 288 pages, 153mm x 234mm, 389 g
Published: 2011, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
When the elliptical new drama teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Stellar Plains, New Jersey, chooses for the school play Lysistrata the Aristophanes comedy where women stop having sex with men in order to stop 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 partners, their shared history, and their sexual selves in a new light. Written with the sly humor and piercing intelligence that readers have come to expect from Meg Wolitzer, The Uncoupling tackles a difficult subject head-on and makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh and in the process gives her readers the chance to see their own lives through her insightful lens.
The Uncoupling