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reissja
Jul 08, 2011reissja rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This book is a laff riot. From its title I was expecting another of Wolitzer's dissections of suburbia, emphasizing divorce. Thank Eros, she goes off in a fresher direction. Part fairy tale, part parable, this book deals with sex in a devastatingly new yet Classical--as in Greek antiquity--way. Wolitzer describes what happens when a performance of Aristophanes's "Lyisitrata" in a New Jersey high school results in the local district's women being hit with a gale of frigidity and abandoning their men. If this sounds over-the-top, Wolitzer's down-to-earth writing brings the subject home hilariously, with serious overtones. I grew up on Wolitzer's mother the redoubtable Hilma Wolitzer's fiction. In this case the daughter more than matches her mom. I gobbled up "The Uncoupling" in two sittings.