The Wife's Tale: A Novel - Softcover

Lansens, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316069329 ISBN 13: 9780316069328

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2011

Synopsis

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Review:

"A sensitive but deliciously comic account of Mary's fight against the "obeast" that has lived inside her since childhood, The Wife's Tale offers more than self--improvement: there are loving reflections on marriage and family in small-town Ontario, hilarious travelogues about American obsessions like McMansions and vanity license plates, and a tender documentary of the improbable compassion of strangers for fellow travelers. Of course, there's plenty of self-discovery too.... Lansens has more than a few tales worth telling."--Casey Cep, New York Times Sunday Book Review

"Lansens--who lived so memorably inside the heads of conjoined twins Ruby and Rose in The Girls--sketches another indelible female character here. Mary Gooch... [is] original... heartbreakingly funny and sad."--Entertainment Weekly

"Lansens' clear prose unveils the connection between a body weighed down by flesh and a spirit smothered by loneliness. Mary's odyssey of heartache and hope is not so much about finding her husband as it is about rediscovering herself."--People

"Lansens's hopeful and gentle third novel (after The Girls), opens in the same fictitious Ontario county as its predecessors, but the heroine's journey takes her to a vastly different landscape, both literally and spiritually... Mary Gooch's [is] a wonderful character, and Lansens's handling of her eventual transformation into someone capable of compassion and acceptance is handled with a light but assured touch."--Publishers Weekly

Book Description:

* From the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller THE GIRLS, comes a novel about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0316069329
• ISBN 13: 9780316069328
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384