All the beautiful people live in the idyllic village of Stepford, Connecticut, an affluent suburban Eden populated with successful, satisfied hubbys and their beautiful, dutiful wives. For Joanna Eberhart, a recent arrival with her husband and two children, it all seems too perfect to be true - from the sweet, accommodating Welcome Wagon lady to all those cheerful, friendly faces in the supermarket checkout lines. But just beneath the town's flawless surface, something is sordid and wrong - something abominable with roots in the local Men's Association. And it may already be too late for Joanna to save herself from being devoured by Stepford's hideous perfection.

This didn't really get creepy until the end. It seems to be a creepier movie than book, I guess because the visuals are better.

I didn't care for the ending though!

This is now heading off to Sherria on 5/29!!

This arrived yesterday, and I read half of it last nite. It's a thin book; will be a quick read.

Thanks so much for sharing this book with me, before the movie comes out. Bookcrossers are such generous people :)

I'll either release this or pass it on to someone else who's interested when I've finished readint it.

Finished this book tonite. I enjoyed it - fast paced, no wasted scenes, and an unexpected ending (I REALLY expected something different). I'm glad I got to read it before seeing the movie that's due out soon. It will be interesting to see how they change the story.

This book is set either in the town I live in, or one very nearby. The surrounding towns in the novel have names very similar to the towns around me, and The Center sounds much like the Town Center where I live. Even the names of the streets are similar. Knowing the area makes the book even more interesting, I think - I'm going to be looking at people and wondering what they'd be like as Stepford residents.

Thanks so much ellymae58, for finding this book and sending it to me!

I plan to release this book over the weekend. I'm hoping there will be enough interest in it because of the upcoming movie that it will attract an interested reader.

Got a request for this, so rather than wild-releasing it locally, I'm going to send it to BlueAmazon as part of a trade. Hope you enjoy it!

This is going in the mail 6/15/04

So excited to read this. I wonder if it is more my 'image' than the movie was...

brilliant book - clean, clear prose, and unexpectedly good, I'd imagine, when it came out. The afterword goes on to discuss thenature of this satire, so I won't, but it is brilliant.

I, too, had always bantered about the term 'stepford wife', never really sure if I was using it correctly. I saw the 2004 movie and was dissapointed in the light treatment of what I saw as a dark thriller. Cannot believe there wasn't more thought provoked of this idea - men changing their women into robots to please them [won't say more, for those who want to see the movie]
I loved the book, and love the ending.

Will wild release related to the movie, as sherria had planned before kindly sending to me.

Released on Friday, July 02, 2004 at METRA Train in Chicago, Illinois USA.

4:10PM train towards Harvard, I think.

Sleeping Arrangements released shortly before at the Metra station... I sat NEXT to a woman carrying Sleeping Arrangements, so getting off, left this book next to her. Have high hopes for 2 wild catches. http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/1501487

Chicago suburbs are not exactly Stepford, but not far from it, sometimes...