A reliable wife
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Robert Goolrick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781565125964
Subjects: Marriage -- Fiction; Family secrets -- Fiction; Wisconsin -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
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.