The Christmas Wife - Stories (Paperback)


A lonely widower rents a woman to keep him company over the holidays. The young wife of a considerably older man steps off their train for just a moment and never returns. A woman and her withdrawn grandchild try to bridge the generations and loneliness keeping them apart. In these tales and others in "The Christmas Wife," Helen Norris celebrates the heart's triumph over the tragic losses and nameless longings of our common existence.

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A lonely widower rents a woman to keep him company over the holidays. The young wife of a considerably older man steps off their train for just a moment and never returns. A woman and her withdrawn grandchild try to bridge the generations and loneliness keeping them apart. In these tales and others in "The Christmas Wife," Helen Norris celebrates the heart's triumph over the tragic losses and nameless longings of our common existence.

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General

Imprint

University of Illinois Press

Country of origin

United States

Series

Sunsinger Books/Illinois Short Fiction S.

Release date

June 1988

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Dimensions

203 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

144

ISBN-13

978-0-252-06041-0

Barcode

9780252060410

Categories

LSN

0-252-06041-5



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