Readers should remember that Ira Levin is the dramatist of “No Time for Sergeants” as well as the author of “Rosemary's Baby.” There is a broad current of humor beneath the horrific surface of this little ambush of Women's Lib, life and the pursuit of happiness. One of the Association's moving spirits (to drop a single clue) is “Diz” Coba: his nickname is based on he fact that he was the genius behind the creation of those near‐human figures in Disneyland….īy Ira Levin. Meanwhile, Stepford husbands are up to Heaven knows what at the “Men's Association,” where lights burn late every night. Her family, which included her husband (who she claims is also a feminist), and her children are new residents in the town of Stepford. The novel starts off as Johanna, a strong independent feminist. It highlights the issues of feminism and how difficult it is to push through with the ideas. Even the two most nonconformist of Stepfordiennes undergo - gulp!-drastic transformations a few months after settling in. Stepford Wives (1972) is a novel by Ira Levin. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Stepford Wives. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The distaff side of the young married set is becoming pathologically home‐oriented, rejecting evenings of consciousnessraising in favor of giving another coat of wax to the kitchen floor. The Stepford Wives - Kindle edition by Levin, Ira. Strange things are happening in Stepford, an upper‐middleincome suburban community.
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