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He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly loved. What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was that they would fall so completely in love. Filled with unforgettable characters, and shimmering with color and atmosphere, "A Reliable Wife" is an enthralling tale of love and madness, of longing and murder.
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Delicate, beautifully-written (intended), full of drama, this book brings you to peep inside the nature of an intentionally arranged, bizarre marriage. Two main characters in the book offer 3 widely-shared reasons for a marriage: money, loneliness and love...
评分Delicate, beautifully-written (intended), full of drama, this book brings you to peep inside the nature of an intentionally arranged, bizarre marriage. Two main characters in the book offer 3 widely-shared reasons for a marriage: money, loneliness and love...
评分Delicate, beautifully-written (intended), full of drama, this book brings you to peep inside the nature of an intentionally arranged, bizarre marriage. Two main characters in the book offer 3 widely-shared reasons for a marriage: money, loneliness and love...
评分Delicate, beautifully-written (intended), full of drama, this book brings you to peep inside the nature of an intentionally arranged, bizarre marriage. Two main characters in the book offer 3 widely-shared reasons for a marriage: money, loneliness and love...
评分Delicate, beautifully-written (intended), full of drama, this book brings you to peep inside the nature of an intentionally arranged, bizarre marriage. Two main characters in the book offer 3 widely-shared reasons for a marriage: money, loneliness and love...
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坦白说，起初我抱着一种近乎挑剔的眼光开始阅读这本厚厚的书，毕竟当下市场上充斥着太多故作高深却内容空洞的作品。然而，这本书彻底颠覆了我的预期。它不是那种靠华丽辞藻堆砌起来的“文学”，而是扎根于生活土壤，汲取了深刻的人文关怀的佳作。作者对于社会结构中那些隐形的力量和压迫，有着惊人的洞察力。你可以在字里行间感受到那种时代洪流下个体命运的渺小与挣扎，但同时，又被其中闪现的微弱却坚韧的人性光辉所打动。叙事节奏的把控是教科书级别的，前半部分的铺陈沉稳内敛，如同酝酿多年的老酒，后半段则火力全开，信息量和情感冲击力呈指数级增长，让人手不释卷，心潮澎湃。我尤其欣赏作者在处理配角群像时的手法，即便是寥寥数笔勾勒出的人物，也栩栩如生，他们共同编织成了一张密不透风的社会网络，让故事的真实感达到了极致。读完合上书本的那一刻，我甚至觉得自己的呼吸都变得沉重了一些，这是好书给予读者的，最真切的反馈。
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评分It's all about family and love. an unloving mother drove the dad to a wild life, but everything thing changes when he met 'the one'. Then 'the one' cheated on him and he think its all karma. The son sought ravage, and love all his life. A woman acting out of love, and found love and kindness in the end. Somehow childhood (parents) does define us.
评分It's all about family and love. an unloving mother drove the dad to a wild life, but everything thing changes when he met 'the one'. Then 'the one' cheated on him and he think its all karma. The son sought ravage, and love all his life. A woman acting out of love, and found love and kindness in the end. Somehow childhood (parents) does define us.
评分It's all about family and love. an unloving mother drove the dad to a wild life, but everything thing changes when he met 'the one'. Then 'the one' cheated on him and he think its all karma. The son sought ravage, and love all his life. A woman acting out of love, and found love and kindness in the end. Somehow childhood (parents) does define us.
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