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Stinging needles of snow plunge rural Wisconsin into isolating despair as this erotic psychological thriller unravels in the autumn of 1907. Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt, remote and severe, awaits his dowdy mail-order bride on a gloomy railroad platform, too restrained even to shiver in public. "I am a simple honest woman," she has written him.
When glossy-haired Catherine Land, his young wife-to-be, slips off the train, she collapses Ralph with her unexpected beauty and stillness. Ralph, in turn, shatters Catherine with his growly security and kindness. Each is deceiving the other. Tony Moretti, Ralph's ruthless estranged son, eventually sinks their schemes. A Reliable Wife is Gothic suspense, so secrets leak, blood spills, arsenic drips, and past wrongs are avenged.
Novelist Robert Goolrick knots chilling plot twists with ruined characters. Brittle Catherine buries her depraved adulthood by cloning the "manners of her fellow travelers exactly", down to cleaning her own hairbrush so maids will remark on her good breeding. She holes up in public libraries and steams through encyclopedias and card catalogs, collecting facts for her reinvention as a virginal missionary's daughter. Ralph punishes his roaring sensuality with ice water and listless dinner parties. He is a joyless grind. Love, meanwhile, bores Tony with its "lack of event...the same steady heartbeat".
Mark Feuerstein narrates A Reliable Wife in hypnotic murmurs to resist competing with Goolrick's lush, poetic language and explicit sexual dialogue. He bundles his velvety reading voice into a steady purr, lulling and tranquilizing against overwrought subtexts of hysteria. Feuerstein is unhurried, though never halting. He chronicles Catherine and Ralph's broken tangle with unadorned inflections and conspiratorial silences. Feuerstein invests his characters with authentic hearts, even if they, themselves, are not in true possession of one. Nita Rao
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"This darkly nuanced psychological tale builds to a strong and satisfying close." ( Publishers Weekly)
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February 1913: seventeen-year-old Leda, carrying only a small trunk and her father's cherished violin, leaves her Italian village for a new home, and a new husband, in Argentina. Arriving in Buenos Aires, she discovers that he has been killed, but she remains: living in a tenement, without friends or family, on the brink of destitution. Still, she is seduced by the music that underscores life in the city: tango, born from lower-class immigrant voices, now the illicit, scandalous dance of brothels and cabarets.
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A rousing tale
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The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography's founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre's invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year, he creates his "Doomsday List", 10 items he must photograph before the final day. It includes a woman he has always loved but has not seen in half a century.
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Dud
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Sula
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Nel and Sula's devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Good against evil and a riotous story to boot
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Excellence.
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Puzo's Best
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently....
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A Great Novel, just Poor for Audio
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To Taste the Wine
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Great story but too detailed in sex scenes for me
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In the mid-19th century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his fathers nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his fathers will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris.
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As a painter
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Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband. And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom.
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Indian history takes a back seat to 3 young women
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It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah’s small farm running. Suddenly, Annie’s young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.
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Splendid
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- Rebecca
- 05-06-09
Strange but lovely
This book is for lovers of "literary fiction" (things like Ian McEwan though this is a much smaller scale); it's not for those looking for a mystery/thriller. The flawed protagonists drew me in and the end was satisfying.
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- Riverman63
- 02-22-11
Dynamic
Excellent read! This book brings home the human condition. Winter - in the far Northern US can be a depressing place - it can also bring people into themselves and help find true meaning to this life we all lead. The choices we make, the consquences of those choices and redemption are all brought to life in the excellent book, with an excellent narrator.
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- Heather
- 04-21-12
An intriguing read, but a bit depressing
What did you like best about A Reliable Wife? What did you like least?
I liked the ending becuase it was really the only happy moment in the entire book.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Good ending but too long getting there.
Did the narration match the pace of the story?
Yes, but he dragged a bit. There were many pauses that weren't necessary.
Do you think A Reliable Wife needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
Yes if it told what happened to them and their baby and if her imaginary garden ever came to fruition.
Any additional comments?
It was tough at times to determine who was speaking. There were not enough "he said" or "she said"s. When reading, that may have been more distinguisable by seeing the paragraph indentions. When listening, I got confused by this often.
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- Michelle
- 01-08-16
decent read but biting really special
it was an interesting story and I enjoyed it but it wasn't the type of book that one just can't stop listening to. I did nitty enjoy the narrator or reader. His voice was off and I didn't think he captured and expressed the characters very well.
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- R. Law
- 05-08-09
Intriguing story but only average writing
The premise of this book is very interesting (I'd sum it up as "sexual sociopaths in turn of the century Wisconsin"), as is much of the detail the author imagines for the characters, however it's clear that a more capable writer would have delivered a far more compelling story: there are a number of inconsistencies in the story where a character thinks or acts as if they don't know some crucial detail about another character, only to have it revealed later that they knew all along. It happens with enough frequency in the story as to be distracting and ultimately to make conclusion of the book pretty clumsy.
That said, it's a good read, er, listen and is well narrated. For pure escapism you could do worse. Be prepared for a lot of rather explicit and not always savory sex -- the author seems to be downright obsessed.
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- Roxanne
- 05-27-09
Great novel
intriguing characters. Great development of atmosphere by author. Only complaint is that this book has no really likeable characters, although I did develop some compassion for the heroine(?) at the end.
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- feather7
- 02-16-11
That’s the way people are . . .
I thought that someone might mention this coincidence, but I don’t see it. First, I personally enjoyed—with some cringes—the language, mood and style of this story. Goolrick takes us to a winter in 1907 that’s so isolated and remote that we find it totally bizarre; unreal. This kind of isolation really existed or still exists. Look for a copy of "Wisconsin Death Trip". It samples a collection of old glass photo plates found in a very old home. The real descriptions are gone--lost to time. They are simply combined with excerpts from the county newspaper. The clippings are real incidents like the stories in this book. That book was real--because, as Ralph keeps saying, "That’s just the way people are. . ." That book gave me a chill and now, through fiction, I know the rest of the story.
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- Meagan
- 08-01-10
Beautiful
I you are reader who is tired of formula and typical characters then this is the book to listen to. This story is not grand or great but it is beautiful. It is not a happy story but it is a good story with a good ending. None of the characters are pious or even redeemable, they are all good and bad and are more human than most characters are. The story, for me at least, was a story about making and living with, for better or worse, the choices we make and the choice that are made for us. But it just isnt about living with them its also about the excuse we make to continue living with the good and bad choice. The story is haunting, sad, and down right depressing in some places but it is a good story and one worth listening to.
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- kellie york
- 02-01-20
The Title is deceiving!
Fantastic story with completely unexpected twists. This story grabs you and then the story explodes! Loved it!
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- M. Dunn
- 03-05-10
Mesmerizing
I can't imagiine having enjoyed this book as much if I had read rather than listened to this book. Mark Feuerstein's poetic, sensuous , mesmerizing reading pulled me in, lured me to complete the story, amde me feel the desolation, the isolation, the human need for contact and love in the midst of loneliness. I will carry the message of forgiveness with me long after hearing the last word read.
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