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100 1 $aWolitzer, Meg $q(Meg Wolitzer).
245 14 $aThe Ten-Year Nap$h[electronic resource].
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Group USA, Inc.,$c2008.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $aFrom 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.
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bNew York :$cPenguin Group USA, Inc.,$d2008.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1588 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 355 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1588 KB) or Mobipocket Reader (file size: 355 KB).
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