The Dangerous Husband
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: September 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780316782654
Subjects: General; Accidents; Fiction / General; Photographers; Reading Group Guide; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: We were introduced at one of those theatrical, poignant Manhattan Thanksgivings, a splendid party (singular guests, including small precocious chess-playing children and a cousin of Jim Jarmusch's; cornucopia of gourds wildflowers pouring down the center of the trestle table; old family silver bought at a yard sale in Maine) in the clever, threadbare Horatio Street home of our shared acquaintance Lydia, a magazine editor who bravely orchestrates holiday feasts for the friends who have become her family and always takes in strays: This guy and I were the strays.