Mrs. Kimble - Softcover

Haigh, Jennifer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060858788 ISBN 13: 9780060858780

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2006

Synopsis

"Beautiful, devastating and complex." --Chicago Tribune

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.

About this title

Review:

‘A luminous debut novel...with memorable, vibrant characters, that will have wide appeal.’ Booklist

‘The measured prose and care for detail show a promising talent.’ Kirkus Reviews

‘This moving novel explores questions of love and loss – the first, second and third time around.’ Glamour

‘Each Mrs Kimble comes tantalizingly alive thanks to the author’s considerable gift for conjuring up a character with the tiniest of details.’ Washington Post

About the Author:

Jennifer Haigh is the author of the short-story collection News from Heaven and four critically acclaimed novels: Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Her books have won both the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and the PEN/L.L. Winship Award for work by a New England writer. Her short fiction has been published widely, in The Atlantic, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Boston.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060858788
• ISBN 13: 9780060858780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416