The Stepford Wives
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4.2 • 198 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby
With an Introduction by Peter Straub
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.
Customer Reviews
INTERESTING READ
I enjoyed the story and it keeps you guessing until the end.
Full Tilt
Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives is a story about social standards and sexual equality gone wrong. What Levin wrote about in the 1970s still applies today.
Creepy and sensationalist, instead posable and pretty. This is the full tilt at the issues between men and women even today.
Maybe someone should make it into a movie so more people would be aware…oops! Already been done…twice. Neither movie captures Levin’s subtle, dark approach accurately.
Mystery at the ending
What I like about this book is Ira Levin did not make into a science fiction story (it is though) . The story has a reality to it and it leaves the reader to question what really is going on in Stepford .