Assuming wife is required, the following 1937 results were found.
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art—specifically, to depict on canvas the kind of strong heroine she herself has become—threatens to overwhelm her roles as wife and daughter. Her struggle to reconcile her conflicting passions lies at the heart of Artemisia's story, ingeniously crafted...
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written, Astrid and Veronika affirms the power of narrative to transform. Kim Edwards (author of The Time Traveler's Wife) In Swedish novelist Olsson's somber debut, Veronika Bergman returns to Sweden after a childhood following her diplomat father...
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Atonement (McEwan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/atonement-mcewan
healer and therapist Penny Allen ended in 1995 and was followed by a bitter custody battle over their two sons. His second wife, Annalena McAfee, was formerly the editor of the Guardian's Review section. In 2002, McEwan discovered that he had a brother...
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Dust. In 1996 he was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, one of France’s highest decorations. He and his wife, Dianne, live in Oscar, Louisiana. (From Wikipedia.) Book Reviews Miss Jane Pittman’s American journey spanned over one...
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Ava's Man (Bragg)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/avas-man-bragg
boats out of car hoods and knew how to pack a wound with brown sugar to stop the blood. He could not read, but he asked his wife, Ava, to read him the paper every day so he would not be ignorant. He was a man who took giant steps in rundown boots, a...
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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Baby Proof (Giffin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/baby-proof-giffin
men seems more tempered, even though it could be said that without women like Jess, Scott would have no one to cheat on his wife with. Do you feel that our love for our friends frequently allows us to give them a pass for bad behavior? How often do you...
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sorts to Hendricks's anemic Bread Alone (2003) features the same implausible characters. Wynter Morrison, once the miserable wife of a rich man, now kneads bread in a hip bakery and flirts with disaster in the form of Mac, a freewheeling bartender. Of...
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Bean Trees (Kingsolver)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bean-trees-kingsolver
in the region, she never imagined staying there herself. "The options were limited--grow up to be a farmer or a farmer's wife." Kingsolver has always been a storyteller: "I used to beg my mother to let me tell her a bedtime story." As a child, she wrote...
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Beauty Myth (Wolf)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/beauty-myth-wolf
different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope,...
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- Category: Non-Fiction
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becomes caregiver to her longtime friend Elizabeth, diagnosed with cancer, a role that seems more appealing to Piper than wife to Kyle. These family dynamics collide and reconfigure in a variety of ways that readers will find fascinating. De los Santos...
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Birth House (McKay)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/birth-house-mckay
of Rares. As a child in an isolated village in Nova Scotia, she is drawn to Miss Babineau, an outspoken Acadian midwife with a gift for healing. Dora becomes Miss B.’s apprentice, and together they help the women of Scots Bay through infertility,...
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Blind Assassin (Atwood)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/blind-assassin-atwood
bitter reminiscence of her life as the privileged daughter of a prosperous Ontario family, the Chases, and later as wife to Richard Griffen, the businessman who effectively inherits and firmly directs the Chase fortunes. The counterpart story, The Blind...
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Blue Heaven (Box)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/blue-heaven-box
fishing guide, a small town newspaper reporter and editor, and he co-owns an international tourism marketing firm with his wife, Laurie. An avid outdoorsman, Box has hunted, fished, hiked, ridden, and skied throughout Wyoming and the Mountain West. He...
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Book of Daniel (Doctorow)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/book-of-daniel-doctorow
dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. It is a confession of his most intimate relationships—with his wife, his foster parents, and his kid sister Susan, whose own radicalism so reproaches him. It is a book of memories: riding a bus...
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Bound (Gunning)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bound-gunning
to complete her last three years of servitude. But because pre-Revolutionary law states that a husband owns everything his wife brings to the marriage, Nabby's husband, Mr. Verley, now owns Alice. Verley is a monster of barely believable proportions,...
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history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He now lives with his wife Carol Doig, nee Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington. Before he became a novelist, Doig wrote...
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Breathing Lessons (Tyler)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/breathing-lessons-tyler
life and the traffic. Maggie, meanwhile, is hatching a plot she thinks could reunite their son with his long-estranged wife and child, based on the evidence she has fabricated. Tyler's most entertaining novel yet, a love story in praise of marriage;...
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Brick Lane (Ali)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/brick-lane-ali
Chanu fancies himself a frustrated intellectual and continually expounds upon the "tragedy of immigration" to his young wife (and anyone else who will listen), while letters from downtrodden Hasina provide a contrast to his idealized memories of...
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was annulled by the Church, he married Laura Herbert, a Catholic, daughter of Aubrey Herbert, and, like Waugh's first wife, a granddaughter of the 4th Earl of Carnarvon. This marriage was successful, lasting the rest of his life, producing seven...
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Brooklyn (Toibin)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/brooklyn-toibin
perspective of Eilis? 5. Imagine Eilis in today’s world. Do you see her primarily as a career-motivated woman, or as a wife and mother? How does Toibin present the conflict between job and family in the 1950s? How is it different today? 6. When the...
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