Wolitzer is almost crushingly insightful she doesn't just mine the contemporary mind, she seems to invade it. "The Interestings" kept me in a state of alert recognition of the self, sometimes delighted and often chagrined. Her 2003 novel "The Wife" was a fury of ambitious writing on the topic of spousal inequities and simultaneously, male-female literary ambition.īut "The Interestings" is exactly the kind of book that literary sorts who talk about ambitious works (at least in the nonexperimental vein) are talking about: It's fat with pages and plot and loaded with thinly veiled cultural references, relevant social commentary and emotional themes - particularly envy and regret. I don't want to insult Meg Wolitzer by calling her sprawling, engrossing new novel, "The Interestings," her most ambitious, because throughout her 30-year career of turning out well-observed, often very funny books at a steady pace, I have no doubt she has always been ambitious.
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