Assuming wife is required, the following 1937 results were found.
-
Last Empress (Min)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-empress-min
Tzu Hsi's first-person, the early chapters encompass her trials as a young "widow," as co-regent with the late emperor's wife and as a mother. An engaging domestic drama gives way to pedestrian political history; Tzu Hsi lectures like a popular...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Last Orders (Swift)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/last-orders-swift
son, Vince, the story starts gradually to move forward, cohere, and deepen. The reader learns in time why it is that no wife comes along, why three marriages out of three broke apart, and why Vince always hated his stepfather Jack and still does—or so...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Almost Moon (Sebold)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/almost-moon-sebold
stemmed from a difficult home situation, or did he have larger issues? Should he have taken his daughter and left his wife—for Helen's sake, if not his own—or did he do the right thing by taking care of his wife, so that she wouldn't have to be in an...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Amateur Marriage (Tyler)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/amateur-marriage-tyler
Is Michael unfair to Pauline in expecting her to care for his mother? Who is Michael more obligated to—his mother or his wife? 3. How is Pauline’s flirtation with Alex Barrow related to the letters she sent Michael while he was away in the army (pp....
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
to become a major commercial success was The Cardinal Sins (1981). He then put out the Passover Trilogy: Thy Brother's Wife (1982), Ascent into Hell (1983), and Lord of the Dance (1984). After that, he wrote on average a minimum of two novels per year....
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
created during the course of a career spanning nearly half a century, from his mother's utterly simple cheese soufflé to his wife's pork ribs and redbeans. The Apprentice is the poignant and sometimes funny tale of a boy's coming of age. Beyond that, it...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
-
Beautiful Boy (Sheff)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/non-fiction/beautiful-boy-sheff
son's condition, Nic was strung out on meth, the highly potent stimulant. While his son struggles to get clean, his second wife and two younger children are pulled helplessly into the drama. Sheff, as the parent of an addict, cycles through denial and...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Non-Fiction
-
Bee Season (Goldberg)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bee-season-goldberg
in turn, poured all his hopes and dreams for spiritual enlightenment into his sensitive and thoughtful son Aaron, while his wife Miriam, though a lawyer, drifts off into an emotional haze, trying to put meaning into her existence by entering other...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Birth of Venus (Dunant)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/birth-of-venus-dunant
the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Fourth and favorite child of a prosperous silk manufacturer and his highly cultured wife, Alessandra Cecchi is far less conventionally attractive than her sister, but she's got her mother's brains and a powerful...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Bonesetter's Daughter (Tan)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bonesetters-daughter-tan
of her most popular works. It was adapted to film in 1993. Tan has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Book Thief (Zusak)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/book-thief-zusak
creative partnership with Max. Accompanied by Rudy, the girl copes by stealing food from farmers and books from the mayor's wife. There are also good moments as she learns to read and plays soccer, but Hans's ill-advised act of kindness to a Jewish...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Bridge of Sighs (Russo)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/bridge-of-sighs-russo
friend and nemesis, is deeper but more of the same. Morey gives a bit more energy to the third narrator, Sarah, Lou's wife. The result is more soporific than a Thanksgiving turkey, and getting through Russo's sharp account of the factory towns he knows...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Certain Girls (Weiner)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/certain-girls-weiner
When readers first met Candace "Cannie" Shapiro, she was 28, overweight and single. Still feisty as ever, Candace is now wife to beloved Peter and mother to 13-year-old daughter Joy. The chapters alternate, sometimes jerkily, between Candace's and Joy's...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
end, we still hardly know Billy, but we understand all too well the havoc he has wrought. Especially for his long-suffering wife, Maeve, and guilt-ridden cousin, Dennis, whose well-meant lie may have wounded (but not cursed) Billy's already-doomed soul....
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Cockroach (Hage)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/cockroach-hage
Shohreh Sherazy (lover), the Professor, Sehar (boss's daughter), the Pakistani family downstairs, the landlord, his Russian wife, and the old lady she steals from, Reza the musician, Farhoud, Majeed (Shohreh's uncle's friend), and Mr. Shaheed (the...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Color Purple (Walker)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/color-purple-walker
Mr. ____? When does she at last begin calling him by his first name? 3. Why does Albert tell Harpo to begin beating his wife, Sofia? Why is it so important to Harpo that his wife have no will of her own? Is his relationship with Squeak (Mary Agnes)...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Commoner (Schwartz)https://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/fiction/commoner-schwartz
and his writing has appeared in many publications, including the New York Times and The New Yorker. He lives with his wife and their son in Brooklyn, New York. (From the publisher.) See author's website for interviews. Book Reviews Out of this...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
and social status. Hard work, hope and the will to succeed as a writer motivate the penurious narrator Larry Morgan and his wife Sally as he begins a term teaching at the university. Equally excited by their opportunities are Sid Lang, another junior...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
Some critics have seen the book as a thinly-veiled autobiographical novel recounting Fitzgerald's problems with his wife, the corrosive effects of wealth and a decadent lifestyle, his own egoism and self-confidence, and his continuing alcoholism....
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
-
story, Dallas creates a ripping good read from this fictional journal.... If some of the hooks in the tale, which include wife beating, incest, miscegenation, and adultery, are a bit contrived, the pace is lively and engaging. —GraceAnne DeCandido...
- Type: Article
- Author: interGen support
- Category: Fiction
