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Book clubs and Gen Zs get swept away by Wuthering Heights ahead of movie release
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To prepare for the film, starring Margot Robbie (right), a new generation of readers is seeking out Emily Bronte’s Gothic novel.
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Callie Holtermann
NEW YORK – If Wuthering Heights is a romance, it is the kind with more seething than swooning. Sure, its characters caress every hundred pages or so. But mostly, it is a lot of trudging across frosty moors, beating back mysterious illnesses and offloading anger on the next generation.
Yet the book, English author Emily Bronte’s only novel, is revealing its prickly charms to a new wave of readers.
