The good wife / Stewart O'Nan.
Record details
- ISBN: 1596002913
- ISBN: 9781596002913
- Physical Description: 8 audio discs (approximately 9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, ℗2005.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. Compact discs. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Laural Merlington. |
Summary, etc.: | Patty Dickerson, pregnant with her first child, is waiting for her husband to get home. Unfortunately, a phone call brings news that his involvement in a robbery has gone horribly awry, resulting in murder. He is incarcerated for twenty-eight years, during which Patty struggles to stay faithful while raising her child alone. |
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Subject: | Prisoners' spouses > Fiction. Separation (Psychology) > Fiction. Mothers and sons > Fiction. Married women > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Author Notes
The Good Wife
Stewart O'Nan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 4, 1961. He received a B. S. from Boston University in 1983 and received a M. F. A. in fiction from Cornell University in 1992. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a test engineer for Grumman Aerospace from 1984 to 1988. He has written several novels including The Speed Queen, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, The Circus Fire, and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season. In the Walled City won the 1993 Due Heinz Literature Prize; Snow Angels won the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize; and The Names of the Dead won the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award. Snow Angels was made into a feature film in 2007. In 1996, he was listed as one of Granta's best young American novelists. (Bowker Author Biography)