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A Reliable Wife (Paperback)

By Robert Goolrick

$14.95

On hand as of Feb 3 9:47pm

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Description

In rural Wisconsin in 1909, Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who answered his newspaper advertisement for "a reliable wife." But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, she's not the "simple, honest woman" that Ralph is expecting.

Product Details ISBN-10: 1565129776
ISBN-13: 9781565129771
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 01/01/2010
Pages: 305
Language: English

Historical - General

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