The Good Wife
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: First Picador Edition (1)
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2006-04
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780312425012
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: PATTY'S ASLEEP WHEN IT BEGINS, WAITING FOR HIM IN THE DARK.
Description: On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break in to a house. Within minutes, an old woman is dead and the house is in flames. Across the country, Patty Dickerson's phone rings. It's her husband. He wants her to know that he and his friend have gotten themselves into a little trouble. So Patty's old life ends and a strange new one begins. For the next twenty-eight years, she must live with the absence caused by her husband's incarceration, attempt to raise her son, and brave the scorn of her community. As unflinching as it is heartrending, The Good Wife confirms O'Nan's place as one of our country's most wide-ranging and empathetic masters.

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