num_pages: 193
description: His wife away for the first time, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two adolescents while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian.This is the husband's story now found in Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition, originally published on its own in 1980 as Happenstance.
language: English
title: Happenstance
titlecomplete: Happenstance
genres: Fiction, Marriage, Canada, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 186
publisher: Vintage Canada