The Ten-Year Nap

Meg Wolitzer

ISBN 10: 1602833559 ISBN 13: 9781602833555

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America, 2008

Synopsis

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 prestigious jobs 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 meets someone who seems to have fulfilled the classic women's dream of having it allwork, love, familywithout having to give anything up, a lifetime's worth of concerns, both practical and existential, opens up. As her obsession with this woman's bustling life grows, it forces the four friends to confront the choices they've madeuntil a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.

About this title

About the Author:

Meg Wolitzer is a fiction writer who, like most writers, is happiest when she's working. She is the author of ten novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Interestings. She lives in New York City.

From AudioFile:

Meg Wolitzer's very entertaining new novel explores the linked lives of four New York women friends who find themselves more or less stranded in a version of their lives they don't recognize--a doldrum when the intensity of raising infants is over. But they've been out of the workforce so long they don't know who they are except wives and mothers. Wolitzer knows the territory cold, her ear for dialogue is impeccable, and she's created a marvelous kaleidoscope of personalities linked in a pattern that changes as we watch. Alyssa Bresnahan's performance is nuanced, well paced, and sympathetic, and her voice is lovely. But doesn't anyone in the studio have a biographical dictionary? If Freud is pronounced "froid," is Freund rendered as "froond" even a good guess? B.G. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1602833559
• ISBN 13: 9781602833555
• Binding: Audio CD