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The Ten-Year Nap | 
 enlarge | Author: Meg Wolitzer
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Category: Book
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 1594
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 1594489785
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781594489785
ASIN: 1594489785
Publication Date: March 27, 2008
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Product Description
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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 What about men? July 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
At the height of the feminist movement, I always said: Women will never attain equal rights until men assume equal responsibility for raising the children. Unfortunately, this time has not come, and women like the characters in 10-year-nap represent the end result. Why do we always have to do the sacrificing, the juggling, while men can focus on their career and still be dads and have it all? When will they wake up from their nap? When we wake them up, that's when, and demand true equality. I hope Wolitzer's next novel takes a deep look at this issue.
 Felt like ten years, alright July 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a disappointment. I pre-ordered "The Ten-Year Nap," and was delighted to settle down for what I was certain would be another great novel from Meg Wolitzer, a writer with a knack for a finely-turned phrase, coupled with a wonderfully observant eye for human behavior and motivations. Instead, what I found was a meandering book filled with poorly realized characters and a near-nonexistent plot that centered on the vague ennui of several self-pitying, spoiled women with all the depth and meaning of motel-room art. This novel is to writing as bologna is to steak.
Potential buyers will be better served to read "The Wife," or "The Position." If you've already read those, I suggest re-reading them; you'll get more enjoyment from revisiting either of these two fine novels than you will from "The Ten-Year Nap."
If you're still not convinced, you might consider visiting one of your fine local bookstores to read the first chapter. If you don't find it interesting, save your time - it doesn't improve.
Bo-ring July 4, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I too expected and wanted to love this book but found it unbearably dull. It's the book I would have written if I were a writer. That's why I'm a lawyer.
Worst book I've read in a long time July 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had such high hopes for this book given the reviews and the description. In my opinion, it fell flat. I couldn't have cared less about the characters and their journey. I think it's a poor representation of "stay at home moms" (I dislike that term because it's a bit degrading). These are the type of women where I would say "If you don't like your situtation, then do something about it". I can't stand people who complain all the time and don't do anything about it.
I will probably not read another book by Meg Wolitzer.
Take a Nap Instead of Reading this Book July 1, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book had so many different story lines it was hard to keep up. Some of them were very interesting but then the story would switch to another character/story line that was painfully boring. It is a nice story of motherhood and I can see how some people would find this enjoyable. I found it daunting to get through and didn't relate to many of the characters.
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