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A reliable wife a novel

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 "simpl...

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Main Author: Goolrick, Robert, 1948-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Marriage > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Wisconsin > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Historical fiction > Wisconsin.
Domestic fiction > Wisconsin.
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Summary: 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.--From amazon.com.
Physical Description: 291 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781565125964
1565125967
9781565129771 (pbk)
Author Notes: Robert Goolrick was born in Virginia and attended Johns Hopkins University. He worked in the advertising field for many years and wrote his first published novel, A Reliable Wife, in 2009. He also published a memoir entitled, The End of the World as We Know It.

Goolrick resides in Virginia with his dog, Preacher.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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