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Title: Las poseidas de Stepford/Stepford Wives by Ira Levin ISBN: 8-4014687-1-X Publisher: Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A. Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: BARBIE RULES...
Comment: This is a thought provoking, tautly written novella. A gem of suspense, it was first published in the early nineteen seventies and went on to become a popular movie of the same name, starring Katherine Ross.

The story is very simple but gripping and well written. Joanna Eberhart moves to the seemingly bucolic town of Stepford with her husband, Walter, and two children, leaving behind the dangers of big city living. An independent, assertive, intelligent, and creative woman, Joanna epitomizes the newly liberated women of the nineteen seventies. Looking for like souls with whom to become friends, she seeks out some of the other married women of the town, only to find that they are all uniformly addicted to housework, give their husbands complete obeisance, are made up to the gills, and have figures courtesy of maidenform.

Joanna manages to find several like minded women such as herself. Yet, when they, too, become addicted to housework after having a romantic weekend alone with their respective husbands, Joanna becomes convinced that the town's Men's Association has hatched a sinister plot to change all the wives of Stepford into submissive Barbie dolls. Will Joanna manage to escape the fate of the rest of the Stepford wives? Read the book and find out. You will not be disappointed.

Rating: 4
Summary: An eerie story you can't put down...
Comment: Ira Levin once again manages to spook the reader with his subtle horror in 'The Stepford Wives'. I had trouble putting it down as little by little, more details about the creepy town of Stepford are revealed. Joanna is the main protagonist of the story, and can't comprehend the uniform docility of the thoroughly domesticated women of Stepford, where her and her husband have recently moved. The final outcome of Joanna's discovery is typical of Ira Levin. 'The Stepford Wives' is an exciting and entertaining yarn. Highly recommended.