Book and Movie Review: The Stepford Wives, by Ira Levin

The classic sci-fi thriller that became a part of American jargon.

Random House, 1972, 145 pages

For Joanna, her husband, Walter & 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.

At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense & a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth & beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.

( An artifact of the 1970s that doesn't translate well to the 21st century. )

Also by Ira Levin: My review of A Kiss Before Dying.

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