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Penguin
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 159448788X
EAN: 9781594487880
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Ten-
Year Nap, a funny, provocative, revealing novel about
female desire. When the elliptical new drama teacher at Stellar Plains
High School chooses for the school play Lysistrata-
the comedy by Aristophanes in which women stop having sex
with men in order to end a war-a strange spell seems to be
cast over the school. Or, at least, over the women. One by
one throughout the high school community, perfectly
healthy, normal women and teenage girls turn away from
their husbands and boyfriends in the bedroom, for reasons
they don't really understand. As the women worry over their
loss of passion, and the men become by turns unhappy,
offended, and above all, confused, both sides are forced to
look at their shared history, and at their sexual selves in
a new light. As she did to such acclaim with the New York Times
bestseller The Ten-Year Nap, Wolitzer tackles an
issue that has deep ramifications for women's lives, in a
way that makes it funny, riveting, and totally fresh-
allowing us to see our own lives through her insightful
lens.
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