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...physical, emotional, and organizational labor in marriage - everything from housework to "sex work." It's not an accident, she says, that women initiate three-quarters of all divorces. If family life is worth saving, she says, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Says blurber Pepper Schwartz, author and Ph.D., "Wifework is a welcome corrective to the saccharine over-sentimentalization that seems to be sweeping the United States right now...Her well-written and well-documented book shows how much work being a wife really is and how much inequity is still accepted in modern marriage...
Surprisingly likened to Dostoyevsky (by Andre Maurois, now No. 1 French popular writer and blurber) whose sympathy for his characters is notorious. U. S.French Author Julian Green writes of his human specimens with the coldness but without the spite of an Aldous Huxley. His uninspiring, rather clammy books are informative but disagreeable, arouse respect but rarely sympathy...
Seldom is a publisher's "blurb" anything more than a mere blurb--a kind of mixture of a botch and a burble. but in the case of "After Disillusion" we have before us something different. The "blurber" here displays" considerable thought and considerable analytic power, and we congratulate Mr. Selwyn on his staff...
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