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Young Wives [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Olivia Goldsmith (Author, Reader)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)


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January 26, 2000
Meet the Young Wives: Angela, Michelle, and Jada, thirty-something women who appear to have lives as delicious as dessert.

But then, like a bad souffle, their lives separately collapse, as they each discover lies embedded in their marriages.  Betrayed, their love and trust crushed, their families virtually destroyed, they unite for solace and support.  While their nefarious husbands have won the first battle, the war has only just begun.

Sharing their misery and their dreams, they draw on each other's friendship and strength to heal their wounds - and reconstruct their lives.  Bowed but not beaten, this smart, audacious trio concocts a brilliant recipe to take back what's theirs and render justice on their duplicitous men - a brilliant lightning strike that will unforgettable transform them from victims to victors . . .

The perfect anti-Valentine's Day story, Young Wives is addictively funny with an edge.  Nobody understands "female problems" as well as Olivia Goldsmith, and here she is at her smart and satisfying best.

 


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Three young wives discover what they should have known all along: that their husbands are rotten. Optioned for film, of course.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Acclaim for Olivia Goldsmith: 'One of our most acute observers of modern marriage and betrayal' Good Housekeeping 'Goldsmith's characters are wilful, robust, amusing and delightfully credible' Mail on Sunday --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Audio Cassette
  • Publisher: HarperAudio; Abridged edition (January 26, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0694522597
  • ISBN-13: 978-0694522590
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5 x 3.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,539,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Typical Goldsmith -- high high quality mind candy, July 14, 2000
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This review is from: Young Wives: A Novel (Hardcover)
I read this book in one (very LATE) evening. This is what always happens to me when I buy an Olivia Goldsmith book. Why? Well, she is a fluent writer, with a fine sense of pacing. She has a devious mind, with which she plays out every revenge fantasy you ever had.

Now, it is certainly true that Goldsmith chooses the landscape between men and women as the venue for her most outrageous revenge escapades, and thus men in her books fall into three categories:

(1) complete slime balls who deserve far worse than ever happens to them in these books

(2) wonderful gentle perfect men who turn out to be the ideal love interest for the women who were treated badly by men of type #1

(3) supporting characters, who, when they do not fall into categories #1 and #2, always turn out to be gay

This book is no exception. Bad men, loving women who were done wrong, revenge which tosses the men farther down than they tossed their women, and lots of emotional catharsis.

The three main characters had the usual Goldsmith adventures and all ended up significantly better off than they had been at the beginning of the book. (And at the beginning of the book, two of them thought they had great marriages.)

You don't have to believe all men are pigs to enjoy this fiction, but you do have to be willing to believe that smart women frequently choose men who turn out to be pigs. Put aside what you know about real men, and their complex combinations of good and bad qualities, and wallow in the rollicking story provided for your spare-time enjoyment.

What can I say? It was great fun.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Suburban sisterhood, February 6, 2000
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This review is from: Young Wives: A Novel (Hardcover)
From the first witty chapter heading, Olivia Goldsmith dismantles the perfect suburban lives of attorney Angela, bank manager Jada and housewife Michelle. Then, with her characteristic wit, irony and laugh-aloud humor, she weaves their lives together and with not-so-surprising plot twists, gives them the strength to triumph over incredible (read man related) adversity.

While I read, I was sure I'd met Angela, Jada and Michelle before. I loved watching them develop new powers and talents as their friendship deepened. And, now that I've finished Young Wives, I miss them. I'd love to read a sequel.

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Come on - this is fiction for women!, April 14, 2000
This review is from: Young Wives: A Novel (Hardcover)
OK, first I have to comment on Mr. Mallory's review. Yawn? I'd expect a man to yawn through this book. I, for one, can't keep my eyes opened when the plot of a book is based around the workings of a submarine.

The purpose of this book is not to capture the male reader - as a matter of fact, if anything, it is meant to tick them off. And, for what it is - AND IT IS A "GIRL" BOOK - "Young Wives" is very good. It manages to successfully follow the lives of three different women without getting too bogged down in senseless details. The writing is very good, the plot is thought out and executed in a very consistent manner. It's easy reading fiction that walks an almost comical line of outrage that only a woman could understand. So, if you have a problem with this book, it is probably because you basically do not like this type of literary entertainment.

If you're looking for a court drama, read John Grisham. If you're looking for good psycho-drama, read Dean Koontz. If you're looking for god-awful, horrible fiction, read Jackie Collins, Danielle Steel or Barbara Taylor-Bradford. But, if you want half-way decent fiction for women (and I stress the words fiction and women!), read Olivia Goldsmith. She's one of the best of her genre.

And - if you're a guy, go read Tom Clancy. Or, Zane Grey. You'll be much happier because you'll be reading a book that many a woman will put down after a few chapters rather than yawn through it.

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