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 Perennial ed.
by Ira Levin
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"For Joanne, her husband Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same."--Back cover.
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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 Works, Feminism, Mystery, Classic LiteraturePeople
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Connecticut, U.S.A., Fairfield County, Stepford, New York CityTimes
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The Stepford Wives
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Die Frauen von Stepford: Roman
2004, Goldmann
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2004, Bloomsbury
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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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