The dangerous husband
a novel
by Jane Shapiro
"In The Dangerous Husband, they meet and almost immediately fall in love. Like everyone, they have been alone. He is perfect for her - charming and sexy and awkward and sweet. They are forty; it is time for them to marry and shelter each other."--BOOK JACKET.
"When the honeymoon ends, as honeymoons always do, real life begins, with its surprises. He trips up stairs, falls going down. He cooks a tasty dinner and the kitchen ends up looking like a slaughterhouse. Absorbed in sexual experimentation, he shatters the coffee table. He tenderly wrenches her neck; he breaks her arm. "It was turning out that my husband's dishevelment was incomparable, potent, ramifying. It could destroy whole little worlds.""--BOOK JACKET.
"It will surely destroy her. Unless she can kill him first."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Dangerous Husband: A Novel
September 19, 2000, Back Bay Books
Paperback
in English
0316782653 9780316782654
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The dangerous husband: a novel
1999, Little, Brown and Co.
in English
- 1st ed.
0316782475 9780316782470
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"We were introduced at one of those theatrical, poignant Manhattan Thanksgivings, a splendid party (singular guests, including small precocious chess-playing children and a cousin of Jim Jarmusch's; cornucopia of gourds wildflowers pouring down the center of the trestle table; old family silver bought at a yard sale in Maine) in the clever, threadbare Horatio Street home of our shared acquaintance Lydia, a magazine editor who bravely orchestrates holiday feasts for the friends who have become her family and always takes in strays: This guy and I were the strays."
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