A reliable wife : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781554685035 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781554685042 (2010 HarperPerennial trade pbk.)
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Physical Description:
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291 p. ; 21 cm. - Edition: 1st Canadian ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : HarperCollins, c2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | 2010 HarperPerennial trade paperback edition includes P.S. Extras including Interviews, features and more. |
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Subject: | Matrimonial advertisements -- Fiction Family secrets -- Fiction Widowers -- Fiction Married people -- Fiction Poisoning -- Fiction Wisconsin -- Fiction |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Elkford Public Library | FC GOO (Text) | 35170000349795 | Adult Fiction | Not holdable | Lost | 2013-01-10 |
Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF GOOLR (Text) | TRL062318 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- HARPERCOLL
Set in a small Wisconsin farming and manufacturing town still crumbling a decade after the depression of the 1890s,A Reliable Wife tells the story of Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman who advertises for âa reliable wifeâ in newspapers across America. The woman he chooses, Catherine Land, describes herself as âa simple, honest woman,â but in truth she is both complex and devious not the missionaryâs daughter she claims to be in her letter to Truitt but a courtesan of great beauty, kept by men and haunted by a terrible past. Catherineâs plan in accepting the marriage offer is simple: she will win this manâs devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is the passion she finds in this seemingly solid, forthright mana man who also harbours secrets and whose own past is far from pure.
Filled with remarkable characters and drenched with colour and atmosphere,A Reliable Wife is a story of love and madness, longing and murder, played out in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.