Meg Wolitzer has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.2★ across 58 ratings. The most-rated is The Female Persuasion.
The Female Persuasion
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New York Times Best Seller! “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." (Bustle) “Ultra-readable.” (Vogue) From The New York Times best-selling author of The Interestings comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with but who we want to be. To be admired by someone we admire - we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of being singled out by someone of esteem. But sometimes it can also mean entry to a new kind of life, a bigger world. Greer Kadetsky is a shy college freshman when she meets the woman she hopes will change her life. Faith Frank, dazzlingly persuasive and elegant at 63, has been a central pillar of the women’s movement for decades, a figure who inspires others to influence the world. Upon hearing Faith speak for the first time, Greer - madly in love with her boyfriend, Cory, but still full of longing for an ambition that she can’t quite place - feels her inner world light up. And then, astonishingly, Faith invites Greer to make something out of that sense of purpose, leading Greer down the most exciting path of her life as it winds toward and away from her meant-to-be love story with Cory and the future she’d always imagined. Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It’s a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light.
©2018 Meg Wolitzer (P)2018 Penguin Audio
The Wife
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Meg Wolitzer brings her characteristic wit and intelligence to a provocative story about the evolution of a marriage, the nature of partnership, the question of a male or female sensibility, and the place for an ambitious woman in a man's world. The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are 35,000 feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband, Joseph, is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to receive a prestigious international award, and Joan, who has spent 40 years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, has finally decided to stop. From this gripping opening, Meg Wolitzer flashes back to Smith College and Greenwich Village in the 1950s and follows the course of the marriage that has brought the couple to this breaking point - one that results in a shocking revelation. With her skillful storytelling and pitch-perfect observations, Wolitzer has crafted a wise and candid look at the choices all men and women make - in marriage, work, and life.
©2003 Meg Wolitzer (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
The Interestings
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“Remarkable.... With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.” (The New York Times Book Review) "A victory.... The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation.... She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's." (Entertainment Weekly) A New York Times best-selling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called "genius" (Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot." The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful - true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
©2013 Megan Wolitzer (P)2013 Penguin Audio
An Nachteule von Sternhai
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Das neue Jugendbuch von Meg Wolitzer. Avery Bloom, ein ernsthafter Bücherwurm, voll "exzessiver Ängste", insbesondere vor Gewässern und Hunden, lebt in New York. Bett Devlin, eine furchtlose, extrovertierte Surferin, liebt Tiere aller Art und wohnt in Kalifornien. Gemeinsam haben die beiden Mädchen nur ihr Alter von 12 Jahren und ihre alleinerziehenden schwulen Väter. Als die Töchter erfahren, dass sie gegen ihren Willen in ein Sommerlager gesteckt werden sollen um Freundinnen zu werden und damit ihre Väter sich auf einer Motorrad-Reise in China besser kennenlernen können, beginnen Bett und Avery sich per E-Mail darüber auszutauschen wie sie das verhindern und ihre Väter wieder auseinanderbringen können. Denn keiner der beiden hat Lust, dass sich etwas an ihren kleinen, aber glücklichen Familienleben, ändert. Obwohl sich die beiden Mädchen auf gar keinen Fall kennenlernen wollen, sind sie doch voller Neugier und beginnen in ihren Mails Fragen zu stellen, mehr von ihren Leben zu erzählen und Erfahrungen auszutauschen. Während sich die Mädchen im Laufe des Sommers einander allmählich doch annähern, geht bei den Vätern in China alles gründlich schief! Doch Nachteule und Sternhai - wie sie sich mittlerweile nennen - können sich ein Leben ohne einander nicht mehr vorstellen und vertrauen sich nach und nach ihre persönlichsten Gedanken und Geheimnisse an. Ausschließlich durch Briefe und E-Mails nimmt der Hörer an den lustigen Ereignissen teil, und dabei kommen nicht nur Nachteule und Sternhai zu Wort: Eine szenische Lesung mit Julia Nachtmann, Birte Schnöink, Jörg Pohl, Sebastian Rudolph, Jodie Ahlborn, Barbara Nüsse, Konstantin Graudus, Ilona Schulz, Julian Greis, Gerd Garbers, Stefan Kurt, Pascal Houdus, Jens Wawrczeck, Franziska Hartmann, Cornelia Schirmer, Franz v.Otting, Toini Ruhnke und Lisa Hagmeister.
©2019 dtv Reihe Hanser (P)2019 Hörcompany GmbH
The Ten-Year Nap
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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 40, 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 all - work, love, family - without 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 made - until a series of startling events shatters the peace and, for some of them, changes the landscape entirely.
©2008 Meg Wolitzer (P)2008 BBC Audiobooks America