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Meg Wolitzer

    28 mai 1959

    Meg Wolitzer élabore des récits qui plongent dans les relations complexes et les dilemmes moraux des femmes contemporaines, souvent avec un mélange distinctif d'esprit vif et d'observation perspicace. Sa prose est à la fois accessible et sophistiquée, invitant les lecteurs à se connecter profondément avec les paysages émotionnels de ses personnages. Wolitzer explore des thèmes tels que l'ambition, la déception, la maternité et la quête d'identité dans un monde en constante évolution. Ses œuvres éclairent la nature délicate des liens humains et la résilience trouvée face aux complexités de la vie.

    The Wife
    Millions of Maxes
    To Night Owl From Dogfish
    La Position
    La persuasion des femmes
    Les Intéressants
    • 2022

      Millions of Maxes

      • 40pages
      • 2 heures de lecture
      3,6(178)Évaluer

      Max discovers that uniqueness is more than just a name, in this funny, lively picture book debut by the bestselling author of The Interestings. Max's room has his name all over it--on his blanket and night light and wall. His parents call him The One and Only Max. And so, he is in for a big surprise at the playground one day, when he hears "Max, time to go home!" and two other kids come running. He's not the one and only after all! How many Maxes are in the world?! Millions of Maxes? But when he decides to help one of the other Maxes find her missing toy, he discovers that there are other ways to be special, and that he can appreciate the specialness of his new Max friends just as much as his own. That night he dreams of the future adventures he'll have with all of the Maxes he has yet to meet.

      Millions of Maxes
    • 2019

      To Night Owl From Dogfish

      • 304pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      4,2(161)Évaluer

      From two extraordinary authors comes a moving, exuberant, laugh-out-loud novel about friendship and family, told entirely in emails and letters.Avery Bloom, who's bookish, intense, and afraid of many things, particularly deep water, lives in New York City. Bett Devlin, who's fearless, outgoing, and loves all animals as well as the ocean, lives in California. What they have in common is that they are both twelve years old, and are both being raised by single, gay dads.When their dads fall in love, Bett and Avery are sent, against their will, to the same sleepaway camp. Their dads hope that they will find common ground and become friends--and possibly, one day, even sisters. But things soon go off the rails for the girls (and for their dads too), and they find themselves on a summer adventure that neither of them could have predicted. Now that they can't imagine life without each other, will the two girls (who sometimes call themselves Night Owl and Dogfish) figure out a way to be a family?

      To Night Owl From Dogfish
    • 2018
    • 2017

      The Best American Short Stories 2017

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Best-selling author Meg Wolitzer guest edits the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction. If you know exactly what you are going to get from the experience of reading a story, you probably wouldn't go looking for it; you need, in order to be an open reader of fiction, to be willing. To cast a vote for what you love and then wait for the outcome, writes Meg Wolitzer in her introduction. The Best American Short Stories 2017 casts a vote for and celebrates all that is our country. Here you'll find a man with a boyfriend and a girlfriend, naval officers trapped on a submarine, a contestant on America's Funniest Home Videos, and a gay man desperate to be a father-unforgettable characters waiting for an outcome, burning with stories to tell. The Best American Short Stories 2017 includes T. C. BOYLE - JAI CHAKRABARTI - EMMA CLINE - DANIELLE EVANS - LAUREN GROFF - ERIC PUCHNER - JIM SHEPARD - CURTIS SITTENFELD - JESS WALTER and others

      The Best American Short Stories 2017
    • 2015

      Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.

      Belzhar. Was uns bleibt ist jetzt, englische Ausgabe
    • 2014

      Sleepwalking

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      3,4(1209)Évaluer

      The debut novel from New York Times bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, a story of three college students' shared fascination with poetry and death, and how one of them must face difficult truths in order to leave her obsession behind. Published when she was only twenty-three and written while she was a student at Brown, Sleepwalking marks the beginning of Meg Wolitzer's acclaimed career. Filled with her usual wisdom, compassion and insight, Sleepwalking tells the story of the three notorious "death girls," so called on the Swarthmore campus because they dress in black and are each absorbed in the work and suicide of a different poet: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Wolitzer's creation Lucy Asher, a gifted writer who drowned herself at twenty-four. At night the death girls gather in a candlelit room to read their heroines' work aloud. But an affair with Julian, an upperclassman, pushes sensitive , struggling Claire Danziger -- she of the Lucy Asher obsession -- to consider to what degree her "death girl" identity is really who she is. As she grapples with her feelings for Julian, her own understanding of herself and her past begins to shift uncomfortably and even disturbingly. Finally, Claire takes drastic measures to confront the facts about herself that she has been avoiding for years

      Sleepwalking
    • 2014

      This Is My Life

      • 329pages
      • 12 heures de lecture
      3,5(79)Évaluer

      The early novel that established Meg Wolitzer’s career, later made into Nora Ephron’s first film as a director. The third book by New York Times-bestselling author Meg Wolitzer (originally published as This Is Your Life), a smart, witty and perceptive novel about the daughters of a female stand-up comic who watch as their mother struggles to balance her career with the needs of her children. Dottie Engels, comedienne extraordinaire, performs her act in Vegas and on late-night TV. Her two daughters, Opal and Erica, live on the periphery of her glittering life, seeing her on the television screen more often than they do at home. But when Dottie’s ratings begin to slide, it takes both her daughters to save Dottie from herself. Displaying Wolitzer’s signature style that combines keen observations, compassion for her characters, sharp humor, and a strong social hook, This Is My Life expertly captures the uncertainties of adolescence and the trials of growing up in the shadow of a mother who is caught between the conflicting pulls of fame and family.

      This Is My Life
    • 2014

      Les Intéressants

      • 744pages
      • 27 heures de lecture
      3,6(1952)Évaluer

      En 1974, Julie passe son été à Spirit-in-the-Wood, une colonie de vacances. Elle y rencontre un groupe de cinq adolescents qui se sont baptisés « les Intéressants » : Ethan, un surdoué des films d'animation ; Goodman et sa sœur Ash, jeunes New-Yorkais bien nés ; Jonah, le fils d'une célèbre chanteuse folk, icône de la contre-culture, et enfin Cathy, qui rêve de devenir danseuse. Le roman suit leur vie pendant quarante ans. Ethan épousera Ash. Ensemble, ils connaîtront la réussite et les drames. Goodman devra faire face à la justice. Jonah se détournera de la musique. Et Julie ? Julie se cherchera pendant de longues années et racontera leur histoire à tous.

      Les Intéressants
    • 2012

      The Uncoupling

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture
      3,0(163)Évaluer

      One winter, the lives of Dory and Robby Lang, high school teachers, are thrown into confusion as Dory finds herself inexplicably repelled by her husband's touch. Back in school, a new drama teacher chooses the Aristophanes comedy 'Lysistrata', in which women withold sexual privileges from their menfolk.

      The Uncoupling
    • 2008

      The Ten-Year Nap

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture
      3,0(354)Évaluer

      For a group of four New York friends, the past ten years have been defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated to believe that they and their generation would conquer the world, they nonetheless left high-powered jobs to stay at home with their babies. What was intended as a temporary time-out has turned into a decade. Now at forty, with their kids growing up, Amy, Jill, Roberta and Karen wake up to a life and a future that is not what they intended. Illicit affairs, money problems, issues with children and husbands all rear their heads, as the friends wonder if it's time for a change.

      The Ten-Year Nap