![]() ![]() “People’s marriages were like two-person religious cults, impossible to understand,” thinks Cory as he cleans a house. Wolitzer’s talent shines in lines that say more in a sentence than most writers do in paragraphs. One more complaint before the good stuff - there’s too much foreshadowing. The issues are complex, but some readers may wish the characters would simply act rather than reading paragraphs about what might happen if they do. ![]() ![]() There’s also Frank’s benefactor and former lover, Emmett Greer’s first love, Cory and her best friend, Zee.Įach character gets chapters that go deep inside their heads. Greer Kadetsky is the young woman in the opening chapter and the feminist icon she meets after a campus speech is Faith Frank - “a couple steps down from Gloria Steinem,” as Wolitzer describes her. If you liked the sprawling narrative of The Interestings, The Female Persuasion follows a similar structure, spanning a little more than a dozen years. And in the more than 400 remaining pages of The Female Persuasion, Meg Wolitzer tells a story about womanhood, ambition, ego and ideals. In the next 30 pages, she meets the woman who inspires her. In the first 15 pages of Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, a college student is groped against her will, setting in motion a life devoted to female empowerment. ![]()
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