Título: The Ten-Year Nap
Autor: Meg Wolitzer
Sinopse: 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.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “The Ten-Year Nap”, de Meg Wolitzer, publicado pela editora Riverhead Hardcover, em 2008 e com 351 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Riverhead Hardcover
Páginas: 351
Ano: 2008
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1594489785
ISBN13: 9781594489785
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Riverhead Hardcover costumam apresentar uma narrativa que combina análise social e relatos pessoais, com foco em temas contemporâneos e históricos que atravessam política, cultura e experiências humanas. O catálogo revela obras que transitam entre investigações densas, memórias íntimas e reflexões sobre mudanças sociais, sempre com uma linguagem acessível e um ritmo que equilibra profundidade e fluidez. Algumas obras exploram a complexidade das relações humanas e a transformação de conceitos tradicionais, enquanto outras trazem relatos em primeira pessoa que mesclam humor e emoção. As sinopses sugerem uma atenção especial a histórias que desafiam convenções, seja pela abordagem multidisciplinar ou pelo olhar crítico sobre a sociedade.
