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Auction For Novel ‘Yesteryear’ Has 4 Bids & Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Banks, Ryan Reynolds Chasing: The Dish

Auction For Upcoming Novel 'Yesteryear' Has 4 Bids & Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Banks & Ryan Reynolds Chasing

EXCLUSIVE: In the kind of brisk battle over a book we would often see yesteryear but not so often lately, a ferocious auction is underway this week that has names like Anne Hathaway, Elizabeth Banks and Ryan Reynolds in the mix. So what if there are nannies and producers behind the scenes, her kitchen hiding industrial-grade fridges and ovens, her husband the Republican equivalent of a Kennedy, her oldest daughter beginning to ask questions about whether her mother is a “trade wife”? It plays out, evocative of The Stepford Wives mixed with Leave The World Behind, with a bit of Black Mirror in there and the kind of biting social commentary Margaret Atwood was known for.

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