A reliable wife
a novel
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2009 - Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Language
English
Word Count
72,750 words, Guess
Page Count
291 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9781615236909
- ISBN-101565125967
- ISBN-139781565125964
- LibraryThing6502660
- Goodreads4929705
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- Library of Congress Control Number2008049700
- OCLC Control Number244420368
- Better World Books9781565125964
- Open LibraryOL22685509M
Classifications
- DDC813/.6
- LCCPS3607.O5925 R45 2009
- LCCPS3607.O5925R45 2009
Description
A widower advertises for "a reliable wife" and he chooses Catherine. To her surprise, Catherine learns to love Ralph and must, as a result, abandon the remaining traces of her former life and cope with the haunting effects of family secrets.
Description
Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.
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