A Reliable Wife
Written by: Robert Goolrick
Category: Fiction
Genre: Historical Fiction, General
Book Details:
ISBN 10: 1565129776
ISBN 13: 9781565129771
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Date Published: January 5th, 2010
Language: English
Condition: Very Good
Appearance: The book is in very good condition with minimal signs of wear. The cover is clean with no noticeable creases or tears. The spine is intact and the pages are free from markings, highlighting, or annotations. The corners of the cover show slight wear but are not bent or damaged.
Synopsis:
Rural Wisconsin, 1909. In the bitter cold, Ralph Truitt, a successful businessman, 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. She is both complex and devious, haunted by a terrible past and motivated by greed. Her plan is simple: she will win this man's devotion, and then, ever so slowly, she will poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is that Truitt -- a passionate man with his own dark secrets --has plans of his own for his new wife. Isolated on a remote estate and imprisoned by relentless snow, the story of Ralph and Catherine unfolds in unimaginable ways. With echoes of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca, Robert Goolrick's intoxicating debut novel delivers a classic tale of suspenseful seduction, set in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.
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