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A Widow for One Year
Published: 2001-11-27
Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
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Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman. By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life. When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the ...
The Widow of the South
Published: 2006-09-26
Paperback: 448 pages
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The Widow of the South
The Widower's Tale: A Novel
Published: 2010-09-07
Hardcover: 416 pages
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In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. ...
The Widows of Eastwick
Published: 2008-10-21
Hardcover: 320 pages
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The Widow's Son
Published: 2001-10-10
Paperback: 387 pages
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The moment 12-year-old Jeremy Rosenberg witnesses his father's death, he loses the world he had assumed would last forever. With a young brother expecting "Daddy" to yet come home, a sister blaming herself, and a mother falling toward isolation, Jeremy is sent fatherless into the world just as he reaches...
A Widow's Story: A Memoir
Published: 2012-02-07
Paperback: 432 pages
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Unlike anything Joyce Carol Oates has written before, A Widow’s Story is the universally acclaimed author’s poignant, intimate memoir about the unexpected death of Raymond Smith, her husband of forty-six years, and its wrenching, surprising aftermath. A recent recipient of National Boo...
The Widow's War: A Novel
Published: 2009-10-13
Kindle Edition: 336 pages
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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts—running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. ...
The Widow's War: A Novel
Published: 2007-02-01
Paperback: 336 pages
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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts?running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. A...
Wife 22: A Novel
Published: 2012-05-29
Kindle Edition: 400 pages
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“A skillful blend of pop-culture references, acidic humor, and emotional moments. It will take its rightful place . . . alongside Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary, Anna Maxted’s Getting Over It, and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It.”—Library Journal (...
Wife for Hire
Published: 2007-11-01
Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
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