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Author:
Goolrick, Robert, 1948-
Title:
A reliable wife : a novel / by Robert Goolrick.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
291 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Marriage--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Wisconsin--History--19th century--Fiction.
Fathers and sons--Fiction.
Greed--Fiction.
Family secrets.
Marriage.
Wisconsin.
Marriage--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Wisconsin--History--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
1800-1899
Book group discussion kits.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary:
Set in rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt 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.
Series:
Book club kit
ISBN:
1565129776
9781565129771
0802853897
9780802853899
1615236902
9781615236909
1565125967
9781565125964
OCLC:
(OCoLC)244420368
LCCN:
2008049700
Locations:
KHPB566 -- Donnellson Public Library (Donnellson) — Copies: 15

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