Still Life with Husband
Meet Emily Ross, thirty years old, married to her college sweetheart, and personal advocate for cake at breakfast time. Meet Emily's husband, Kevin, a sweet technical writer with a passion for small appliances and a teary weakness for Little Women. Enter David, a sexy young reporter with longish...
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Meet Emily Ross, thirty years old, married to her college sweetheart, and personal advocate for cake at breakfast time. Meet Emily's husband, Kevin, a sweet technical writer with a passion for small appliances and a teary weakness for Little Women. Enter David, a sexy young reporter with longish floppy hair and the kind of face Emily feels the weird impulse to lick. In this captivating novel of marriage and friendship, Lauren Fox explores the baffling human heart and the dangers of getting what you wish for.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307277374 (0307277372)
Publish date: April 8th 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Descriptions like "hysterically funny" and "heartbreaking" tend to get thrown around in book reviews, but in all seriousness this book had me doubled over with laughter and breathless with grief.The character makes terrible decisions, but she's sympathetic, and ultimately shows her inner strength, a...