The Stepford Wives

The Stepford Wives (1972) is Ira Levin's taut, unsettling novel about a young woman who moves with her family to the affluent Connecticut suburb of Stepford and gradually discovers that its unnervingly perfect, domestically devoted housewives are not what they appear to be. Written at the height of the women's liberation movement, the novel works as both a feminist horror story and a dystopian allegory, imagining a community that has solved the problem of the independent woman through replacement rather than persuasion. Short, precisely constructed, and genuinely chilling, it spawned two film adaptations and permanently installed "Stepford wife" in the cultural lexicon as a synonym for enforced conformity.

Hardcover. FIrst Edition, First Printing. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. New York: Random House, 1972. ISBN: 0394481992. #10458.
Near fine in near fine dust jacket. The front flap is clipped with sticker price of $4.95 added. It is believed this was done by the publisher on all first printings.