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The Stepford Wives

Ira Levin · Horror

39 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

gothic atmospherepsychological thrillerclosed circleparanormal romance
gothic
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#198 All Time

About this book

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. source: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062037602/the-stepford-wives/

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