THE WEEK OF THE WIVES

by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

What goes on (just about everything) during graduation week at Harvard for executives who have taken the Advanced Management Program- and their wives now there for the festivities-offers its seminar in domestic relations along with some unexpected revelations. Eight men who form one unit (one-Phil Sheldon- is recently widowed) are joined by their wives; Camilla Wyckoff, attractive and above-reproach but a little unapproachable to her husband Rick; Alison Leet, whose delicate charm is mismatched with her lewd, shrewd Texan- Herbie; Mary Jean, the young mother of four, ill-at-ease out of her home; Louise Barnett, the overpossessive mother of one son, and Grace Gilbertson, bitter in her childlessness; Hester McCune, former secretary and recently wed to Mac; and Doreen Lewis whose cheap allure is available. During the week many unacknowledged concerns and conflicts are faced; Hester's fear of her husband's first wife; Doreen's promiscuity; Camilla's girlhood love affair- and the child she had abandoned; Louise's destructive appropriation of her son; Grace's attempt to hide her husband's sterility and the disastrous consequences of her protective gesture; and as one marriage is broken, two others are made possible.... A constellation of intimate problems in the lives of company wives, this belongs in the powder room at the end of the executive suite- and offers a full fashioned entertainment.

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Publisher: Putnam

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1958

Categories: FICTION