The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin

The Stepford Wives

By Ira Levin

  • Release Date: 2011-04-26
  • Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Score: 4
4
From 186 Ratings

Description

The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby
With an Introduction by Peter Straub
For Joanna, 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.

At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and 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.

Reviews

  • Mystery at the ending

    5
    By Bio-Mechanoid Agent
    What I like about this book is Ira Levin did not make into a science fiction story (it is though) . The story has a reality to it and it leaves the reader to question what really is going on in Stepford .
  • Nice

    5
    By SirusMK
    Easy read, very interesting and creepy.
  • Great Thriller

    5
    By MinnieFan.
    This book is much better than both of the existing movie adaptations. It gets scary over midway. Hope they remake the book into a miniseries that is just like the book.
  • Great 🅱️🅾️🅾️k

    2
    By Big Money Jeff
    This book is slower than a snail in molasses, and much like a snail, it meanders nowhere and dies anticlimactically. The author seem to be going for a “creative cliffhanger ending”, but cliffhangers only work in TV shows where you actually plan to RESUME THE SHOW. Anyway, Bush did 9/11 and women belong in the kitchen. Big money over and out
  • Slow

    2
    By Malliexo
    Very slow and it ended with a lot of unresolved questions.
  • Great book

    5
    By Daylen Casteel
    It's one of my favorites and its a page turner
  • A Truly Terrifying Classic!

    5
    By mwbarre
    While some of the sexism may seem a little dated today, Ira Levin's satire of suburbia is almost as terrifying as it was when it was first published in 1972. The story is about a New York family who makes the move to Stepford, a wealthy community in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Upon arriving there, however, the wife becomes curious about the oddly subservient behavior of other women in Stepford and decides to investigate. The Twilight Zone-style twist shows how far some men would go to create their image of the perfect wife!