The Welcome Wagon lady, sixty if she was a day but working at youth and vivacity (ginger hair, red lips, a sunshine-yellow dress), twinkled her eyes and teeth at Joanna and said, "You're really going to like it here! It's a nice town with nice people! You couldn't have made a better choice!
An edition of The Stepford Wives
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The Stepford Wives
1st ed.
by Ira Levin and Ira Levin
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After moving to the "ideal" suburban community of Stepford, Connecticut, with her husband and children, Joanna Eberhart is stunned by the subservient and complacent nature of the women of the town as she struggles to establish a women's liberation group, but she soon discovers the terrifying secret behind the women's behavior.
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horror tales, conspiracy, photographers, satire, thriller, horror fiction, Married women, Robots, Fiction, Science fiction, Female friendship, Fiction, horror, Large type books, Fictional WorksPeople
Joanna Eberhart, Bobbie, Walter EberhartPlaces
Connecticut, U.S.A., Fairfield County, Stepford, New York CityTimes
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The Stepford Wives
2004 06, HarperTorch
Paperback
in English
- 1st HarperTorch Printing (1); Movie Tie-In
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The Stepford Wives
2004-06, HarperTorch
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First HarperTorch paperback printing (1); movie tie-in
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Die Frauen von Stepford: Roman
2004, Goldmann
in German
- 1. Aufl., Taschenbuchausg.
3442457475 9783442457472
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The Stepford Wives
2004, Bloomsbury
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Movie Tie-In Edition (2)
0747574243 9780747574248
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The Stepford Wives
2002, Perennial
Hardcover
in English
- 1st Perennial ed.
0739443321 9780739443323
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The Stepford Wives is a 1972 satirical novel by Ira Levin. The story concerns Joanna Eberhart, a photographer and young mother who suspects the submissive housewives in her new idyllic Connecticut neighborhood may be robots created by their husbands.
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