The Female Persuasion The Female Persuasion

The Female Persuasion

A Novel

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Publisher Description

A New York Times Bestseller
 
“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-bestselling 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 sixty-three, 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
April 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
2.1
MB

Customer Reviews

ChuckBass10 ,

Inspiring read

Timely read during these years of marches, protests, and injustice. Sad, inspiring, funny, and educational!

new yorker 2019 ,

Female persuasion

Took a long time to make certain points and dev certain storylines that could have taken half a long. Harder to get through. Liked the wife better.

liv Donnelly ,

Pretentious unlikable characters

The woman were irritating and bland while the men were irredeemable sex crazed jerks.

I also was disappointed at the lack of meaningful discussion of women’s issues. Feminist topics such as sexual violence and reproductive rights are lightly touched upon but never explored beyond “misogyny = bad”.

Finally (this might be nitpicking) the word choices (particularly in the first few chapters) are somewhat odd as if Wolitzer was flipping through a thesaurus, ignoring flow and connotation.

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