Sleepwalking

by Meg Wolitzer

Book Overview

The debut novel from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion, a story of three college students' shared fascination with poetry and death, and how one of them must face difficult truths in order to leave her obsession behind.

Published when she was only twenty-three and written while she was a student at Brown, Sleepwalking marks the beginning of Meg Wolitzer's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594633134
• ISBN13: 9781594633133
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Hey, I Liked It

Granted, I haven't read this book since I bought it as a mass market paperback (my edition was the one with Goth cover at right) some 20 years ago. It was shelved (and possibly marketed?) as a YA book. Anyway, I really enjoyed it. It's about a young woman's obsession with a suicide, a poet whose Long Island family the heroine, Clare, tracks down and lives with for a while. What I remember are some strong descriptive passages and an evocative sense of place (Long Island, eh). I mean, it's not a patch on The Position or The Ten Year Nap, but what the hell. I liked it a lot. And naturally planned to be a death girl as soon as I was allowed.