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A RELIABLE WIFE
by Goolrick, Robert
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket and slipcase.
- ISBN 10
- 1565125967
- ISBN 13
- 9781565125964
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2009. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket and slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Robert Goolrick's second novel, a rural Wisconsin story of a marriage of convenience that becomes something more - issued in slipcase as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE Series. For more than ten years and over seventy installments, Powell's Books (Portland) has been issuing their semi-monthly INDIESPENSABLE series, a subscription-only selection of specially-produced, (typically) limited edition volumes from many of the most prominent names in literature (Claire Messud, George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Annie Proulx, Donna Tartt, J.M. Coetzee, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Siri Hustvedt) and publishing (McSweeney's, Graywolf, Algonquin). Installments commonly include a signed and slipcased recent release, as well as one of more promotional titles (usually ARCs or like, but sometimes, advance excerpts). 9'' x 6''. Original red boards. Original unclipped ($23.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 292 pages. Numbered 186 of 850 to limitation page. Signed by Goolrick to title page. In original red cloth slipcase. Tight.
Reviews
On Apr 28 2010, BayShore Books LLC said:
The characters have so many layers, as you would expect to be required during a long Wisconsin winter. Beginning with a great dislike for all three, soon to understand them each a bit more and finally to feel the compassion that you can only feel for those who have struggled to survive. Reading reviews of a Reliable Wife shows the depth and feeling invoked from the novel, as many negative as positive, and in my mind this is a true sign of great writing
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- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49621
- Title
- A RELIABLE WIFE
- Author
- Goolrick, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket and slipcase.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 1565125967
- ISBN 13
- 9781565125964
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 21st century,US American,Limited Edition
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