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Mrs. Kimble a novel

The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan, and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and narrativeinnovation rem...

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Main Author: Haigh, Jennifer, 1968-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : HarperPerennial, 2006.
Edition: 1st Harper Perennial ed.
Subjects:
Swindlers and swindling > Fiction.
Married women > Fiction.
Bigamy > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Online Access: Go to Downloadable eBook Here.
Summary: The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan, and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and narrativeinnovation reminiscent of Ann Patchett's Bel Canto, Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible, and Zora Neale Hurston's TheirEyes Were Watching God, Haigh's Mrs. Kimble is a timeless story ofgrief, passion, heartache, deception, and the complex riddle of love.
Item Description: Originally published: New York : William Morrow, c2003.
Physical Description: 394, 16 p. ; 21 cm.
ISBN: 0060858788 (pbk.)
9780060858780
Author Notes: Jennifer Haigh was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2002. Her novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for outstanding debut fiction in 2003. Her other works include Baker Towers, which won the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author, The Condition, and Faith.

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