The wife's tale
(2010, original release: 2009)
By:
Lansens, Lori
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/LANSENS,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2010
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
356 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316069311, 0316069310
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published in Canada by Knopf, 2009
On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband's disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search