The Female Persuasion
A Novel
by Meg Wolitzer
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“One of my occasional book recommendations this, by @MegWolitzer, a novel about power, ambition and contemporary feminism, is really good. | The Female Persuasion is wonderfully dense and wise, a pageturner that succeeds both at character and ideas. It felt true to life.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
To be admired by someone we admirewe 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 el...
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“One of my occasional book recommendations this, by @MegWolitzer, a novel about power, ambition and contemporary feminism, is really good. | The Female Persuasion is wonderfully dense and wise, a pageturner that succeeds both at character and ideas. It felt true to life.”
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