The Suicide's Wife: A NovelWayne Harrington, a poet and an English professor at a small university in West Virginia returns to his empty family home in upstate New York to have a last look before he sells it. He is discovered there, sitting on the lawn, in his favorite boyhood spot, with a bullet in his head. His wife, Ann is left with three small children to raise and an overpowering need to piece together the recent past of a husband whose anguish she never suspected. (Newsweek) |
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