A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick

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.

Goolrick, Robert: - In addition to his most recent novel, The Fall of Princes, Robert Goolrick is the author of three other books: The End of the World as We Know It, a memoir; his first novel, A Reliable Wife, with sales of more than 1 million copies; and his second novel, Heading Out to Wonderful. He lives in Virginia.

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ISBN 13	9781565125964
ISBN 10	1565125967
Title	A Reliable Wife
Author	Robert Goolrick
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Algonquin Books
Year published	2009-03-01
Number of pages	291
Prizes	Winner of New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award (Fiction) 2009, Commended for Great Lakes Book Awards (Fiction) 2009, Commended for Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Fiction) 2009
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