The Resource How to be a good wife, Emma Chapman
How to be a good wife, Emma Chapman
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- Summary
- "In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's Room and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife--as advised by a dog-eared manual given to her by Hector's aloof mother on their wedding day. But now, something is changing. Small things seem off. A flash of movement in the corner of her eye, elapsed moments that she can't recall. Visions of a blonde girl in the darkness that only Marta can see. Perhaps she is starting to remember--or perhaps her mind is playing tricks on her. As Marta's visions persist and her reality grows more disjointed, it's unclear if the danger lies in the world around her, or in Marta herself. The girl is growing more real every day, and she wants something"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by Picador [2013], an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited"--Title page verso
- Label
- How to be a good wife
- Title
- How to be a good wife
- Statement of responsibility
- Emma Chapman
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the tradition of Emma Donoghue's Room and S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep, a haunting literary debut about a woman who begins having visions that make her question everything she knows. Marta and Hector have been married for a long time. Through the good and bad; through raising a son and sending him off to life after university. So long, in fact, that Marta finds it difficult to remember her life before Hector. He has always taken care of her, and she has always done everything she can to be a good wife--as advised by a dog-eared manual given to her by Hector's aloof mother on their wedding day. But now, something is changing. Small things seem off. A flash of movement in the corner of her eye, elapsed moments that she can't recall. Visions of a blonde girl in the darkness that only Marta can see. Perhaps she is starting to remember--or perhaps her mind is playing tricks on her. As Marta's visions persist and her reality grows more disjointed, it's unclear if the danger lies in the world around her, or in Marta herself. The girl is growing more real every day, and she wants something"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1985-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chapman, Emma
- Dewey number
- 823/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR9619.4.C424
- LC item number
- H69 2013
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wives
- Visions
- Mind and reality
- FICTION
- FICTION
- Mind and reality
- Visions
- Wives
- Label
- How to be a good wife, Emma Chapman
- Link
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by Picador [2013], an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9781250018199
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079008383
- Label
- How to be a good wife, Emma Chapman
- Link
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain by Picador [2013], an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other control number
- 9781250018199
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1079008383
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