Three Women (book)

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Three Women
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First edition cover
AuthorLisa Taddeo
Audio read byTara Lynne Barr[1]
Marin Ireland[1]
Mena Suvari[1]
Lisa Taddeo[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHuman female sexuality
PublisherAvid Reader Press
Publication date
July 9, 2019
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages320
ISBN978-1-4516-4229-2
306.7082
LC ClassHQ801 .T2233 2019

Three Women is a 2019 non-fiction book by Lisa Taddeo. It is her debut book and was published on July 9, 2019, by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. It covers the sexual and emotional lives of three women from different backgrounds and regions of the United States. It debuted at number one on The New York Times non-fiction best sellers list and received mostly positive reviews from critics.

Summary[]

The book covers the sexuality of three women: Lina, a suburban Indiana mother whose teenage rape disrupts the course of her life; Maggie, a seventeen-year-old high school student in North Dakota who becomes entangled in an illegal affair with her married English teacher; and Sloane, a successful restaurant owner in the Northeast whose husband likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Taddeo spent the past eight years writing the book, driving across the country six times to embed herself in the lives of the three women.[2]

Publication[]

Three Women was published on July 9, 2019, by Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.[2]

Three Women debuted at number one on The New York Times Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction best-sellers list on July 28, 2019.[3] It spent eleven weeks on the list.[4]

The book also debuted at number two on The New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction best-sellers list on July 28, 2019.[5] It spent eleven weeks on the list.[6]

Television series[]

In July 2019, Showtime gave a series commitment to a television adaptation of book.[7] In July 2021, the project gave production a series order with starring Shailene Woodley and Taddeo as executive producer.[8] In the same month, DeWanda Wise joined the cast in the lead role.[9] In September 2021, Ravi Patel joined the cast in the recurring role.[10] In October 2021, Blair Underwood, Lola Kirke, Austin Stowell and Gabrielle Creevy joined the cast.[11][12][13]

Reception[]

At the review aggregator website Book Marks, which assigns individual ratings to book reviews from mainstream literary critics, the book received a cumulative "Positive" rating based on 29 reviews: 12 "Rave" reviews, 6 "Positive" reviews, 9 "Mixed" reviews, and 2 "Pan" reviews.[14]

Publishers Weekly gave the book a mixed review, writing, "Unfortunately, all three feel underdeveloped, with no real insight into them or their lives outside of their sexual histories, and with little connective tissue between their stories. Taddeo's immersive narrative is intense, but more voyeuristic than thoughtful."[15]

Kate Tuttle of NPR gave the book a rave review, writing, "Its prose is gorgeous, nearly lyrical as it describes the longings and frustrations that propel these ordinary women. Blending the skills of an ethnographer and a poet, Taddeo renders them extraordinary."[16]

Parul Sehgal of The New York Times praised the book's "boldness" but largely criticized Taddeo's style calling it "faux-literary," writing, "To see language treated so shabbily shakes the reader's confidence; if a writer can't work her way around a sentence or land a metaphor, what assurance have we that she can parse her subjects' traumas, their complex, sometimes inchoate yearnings?"[17]

Reviewing the book in The Times, Christina Patterson said: "In weaving these stories together, Taddeo paints an electrifying picture of female desire, and of the pain men casually inflict in their pursuit of sexual pleasure. She writes in searing prose that seems to capture every nuance."[18]

Laura Miller of Slate wrote that "What makes Three Women so remarkable and indelible, and also so refreshingly out-of-step with the tenor of the present moment, is Taddeo’s refusal to judge these 'characters.'"[19]

Writing for The New Yorker, Lauren Oyler felt that Taddeo's writing style created "moral ambiguity at the level of the book's form rather than its content", undermining Taddeo's claim that "these three specific women who are in charge of their narratives."[20]

Elizabeth Flock of The Washington Post gave the book a rave review, calling it "exhaustively reported and as elegantly written as Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers or Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family."[21]

In June 2020 it won the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards.[22]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Three Women Audiobook by Lisa Taddeo, Tara Lynne Barr, Marin Ireland, Mena Suvari. Simon & Schuster. 9 July 2019. ISBN 9781508282075. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  2. ^ a b Taddeo, Lisa (9 July 2019). Three Women by Lisa Taddeo. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451642292. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  3. ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers". The New York Times. July 28, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  4. ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers". The New York Times. October 6, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  5. ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers". The New York Times. July 28, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  6. ^ "Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers". The New York Times. October 6, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  7. ^ "Showtime Makes Series Commitment to Lisa Taddeo's "Three Women"". The Futon Critic. August 2, 2019. Archived from the original on November 13, 2020. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  8. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (July 22, 2021). "Shailene Woodley To Star In 'Three Women' Drama Series Greenlighted By Showtime". Deadline Hollywood.
  9. ^ Petski, Denise (July 28, 2021). "'Three Women': DeWanda Wise Joins Shailene Woodley In Showtime Drama Series". Deadline Hollywood.
  10. ^ Del Rosario, Alexandra (September 29, 2021). "Ravi Patel To Recur In Showtime's 'Three Women'; Fox's 'Monarch' Taps Adam Croasdell As Recurring". Deadline Hollywood.
  11. ^ Petski, Denise (October 18, 2021). "'Three Women': Blair Underwood & Lola Kirke Join Showtime Drama Series". Deadline Hollywood.
  12. ^ Otterson, Joe (October 19, 2021). "Showtime Drama Series 'Three Women' Casts Austin Stowell (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety.
  13. ^ Petski, Denise (October 21, 2021). "'Three Women': Gabrielle Creevy To Star In Showtime Drama Series". Deadline Hollywood.
  14. ^ "Three Women". Book Marks. Retrieved May 7, 2020.
  15. ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo". Publishers Weekly. April 5, 2019. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  16. ^ Tuttle, Kate (July 8, 2019). "Debut Book Tells Of The Real-Life Longings And Frustrations Of 'Three Women'". NPR. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  17. ^ Sehgal, Parul (June 28, 2019). "'Three Women' Takes a Long, Close Look at Sex Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  18. ^ Patterson, Review by Christina (June 30, 2019). "Three Women by Lisa Taddeo review — lays bare the nature of sexual power". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  19. ^ Miller, Laura (July 8, 2019). "How Sexual Desire Transforms Women's Lives". Slate Magazine. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
  20. ^ Oyler, Lauren (July 10, 2019). ""Three Women," Reviewed: Lisa Taddeo's Book Puts Sex in the Mirror". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  21. ^ Flock, Elizabeth (July 26, 2019). "Women and desire: It's about so much more than sex". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 5, 2019.
  22. ^ Flood, Alison (June 30, 2020). "Evaristo and Carty-Williams become first black authors to win top British Book awards". The Guardian. Retrieved June 30, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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