| The Habit of Widowhood Contributor(s): Barnard, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1439157375 ISBN-13: 9781439157374 Publisher: Scribner Book Company OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: A young girl is brought up in seclusion by her elderly parents who are obsessed with isolating her from the sinfulness of life in the wicked world. When, to secure her future, they marry her off to an elderly widower, they set in motion events more terrible than the most hateful of parents could have foreseen. A woman with an enticing sexual secret marries an elderly gentleman - and then another and another. It is all too easy, it seems, to get into the habit of widowhood. A young soldier, home from World War I, is determined to live and love not just for himself, but for all his fallen comrades. But in doing so he enrages a number of husbands. A man going through a midlife crisis meets the bully who made his life hell at school. Some things never change, he discovers, including the taste for inflicting pain. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.53 lbs) 224 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Prize-winning author Robert Barnard presents seventeen witty mystery stories featuring everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood. |
Contributor Bio(s): Barnard, Robert: - Robert Barnard (1936-2013) was awarded the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agatha and Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he was a member of Britain's distinguished Detection Club, and, in May 2003, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing. His most recent novel, Charitable Body, was published by Scribner in 2012. |