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Original Title: The Good Wife
ISBN: 0312425015 (ISBN13: 9780312425012)
Edition Language: English URL https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312425012
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The Good Wife Paperback | Pages: 312 pages
Rating: 3.59 | 2010 Users | 283 Reviews

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Title:The Good Wife
Author:Stewart O'Nan
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:First Picador Edition
Pages:Pages: 312 pages
Published:April 2006 by Picador (first published March 23rd 2005)
Categories:Fiction. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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On a clear winter night in upstate New York, two young men break in to a house. Within minutes, an old woman is dead and the house is in flames. Across the country, Patty Dickerson's phone rings. It's her husband. He wants her to know that he and his friend have gotten themselves into a little trouble. So Patty's old life ends and a strange new one begins. For the next twenty-eight years, she must live with the absence caused by her husband's incarceration, attempt to raise her son, and brave the scorn of her community. As unflinching as it is heartrending, The Good Wife confirms O'Nan's place as one of our country's most wide-ranging and empathetic masters.

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Ratings: 3.59 From 2010 Users | 283 Reviews

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Loyalty when it doesn't come easy. O'Nan knows marginal blue collar people, their families; be it rural, urban, suburban. This tale of a woman who doesn't run from a reality that takes more than it gives could be a tale of thousands of good wives. The kind who keep the promises they make, regardless of lack of pleasant outcomes.I'm going to read all he has written. It's marvelous to find an author that has the voice of the people of your actual life. Not takers, but givers. Who work and live and

I lived in Patty's world for the few days it took to read this book. O'Nan can create a setting, a mood, a sense of time and place in a few sentences. I am there in the courtroom, I am riding in the car with Patty, Her story is sad, but really, she is not. Never depressed and only occasionally self pitying but quickly recovers. Does what she has to do, plays the hand she, through no fault of her own, is dealt. I loved this book. My only question for her would be why she didn't question where he

This was a really good book. The story was a little sad, it is about Patty Dickerson's life after her husband gets into some legal trouble. The changes that happened in their life during this time. It makes you wonder if you were put into this same situation would you make some of the same decisions and choices that Patty did - I'm not so sure......

The Good Wife is about Patty Dickerson and how she's pregnant with her first child patiently waiting for her husband, Tommy, to come home. It's a snowy night when the phone starts ringing off the hook. It's Tommy and he's in jail. He's a thief and got caught during a robbery. Unfortunately for Tommy, he's been convicted of arson and murder. So he receives a 25 year sentence for second degree murder.Now this book is sad. Due to Tommy's actions/consequences.. Patty has to struggle day in and out

As an English teacher, I am often asked why we bother reading fiction. What can we possibly learn from made up stories? There are several answers to this question, but the one that resonates most with me is what Nasar Afisi points out in her memoir, which is that fiction - good fiction - makes us uncomfortable in our moral skin and reminds us that there is more than one way to view the world. By presenting conflicts and complex issues, fiction reminds us how ambiguous even morality can be and to

Another ONan day-in-the life story; this one about Patty and Tommy (actually , more about Patty), and what their life looks like after Tommy is convicted of murder. Unlike An American Marriage, this husband actually committed the crime; although his level of culpability is not clear ( he and a buddy, both drunk, break into an elderly womans house to steal some guns; she winds up dead; not clear who wielded the weapon). But Patty stands by her man, the wisdom of which is never at issue. The story

This novel, The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan takes place in the mid-1970s in a small town in southern New York state. The story begins with almost cinematic bursts of drama. Two scenes are playing out simultaneously; one scene involves Patty Dickerson, a twenty-seven-year-old woman who is expecting the birth of her first child. It's late at night and Patty is preparing for bed after a long and tiring day and she is anticipating the arrival home of her husband Tommy. This scene is so beautifully