A RELIABLE WIFE：A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 14560008B24356

English Summary/英文概要： The year is 1907, and Ralph Truitt, a wealthy but lonely country businessman in his fifties, advertises in a Chicago paper for a “reliable wife.” Beautiful thirty-four year old Catherine Land responds that she is a “simple, honest woman,” but the photo she sends of a plain woman – her cousin – is the first of many lies Ralph uncovers.
Catherine’s plan in accepting the marriage offer is simple: she will win this man’s devotion, and then, ever so slowly, poison him with arsenic and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on, though, is the passion she finds in this seemingly solid, forthright man—a man who also harbors secrets and whose past is far from pure.
Filled with remarkable characters and drenched with color and atmosphere, A Reliable Wife is a story of love and madness, longing and murder, played out in a world that seems to have gone temporarily off its axis.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 男女交往或夫妻之間以互信所作之基礎，是否其實是源於原始利己之心?

在深入交往或結婚之後，也許會漸漸發現對方的秘密此書是Algonquin明年度主打力作，作者繼2007年出版大受好評的傳記之後，即將出版他的第一本小說。海外版權正熱烈銷售中，其中英國與法國分別以五位及四位數字售出。德國甚至連同作者傳記一同買下。Algonquin認為此書不僅故事具吸引力，擁有優美的筆法同時又具市場性。
1907年，50多歲的Ralph Truitt，是一個有錢的鄉下商人，在芝加哥報紙登報徵一個”值得信賴的妻子”。 34歲Catherine Land看到後寄了照片過去並註明自己是個”簡單、誠實”的人。但這張其實是她表妹的照片就是Catherine向Ralph所撒的第一個謊。Catherine嫁給了Ralph並打算用砒霜慢慢毒死他。
然而這對夫妻沒想到其實雙方對彼此都藏著許多秘密…(VC)

Awards/获奖情况：Algonquin 2009年度大書預告
英國Little Brown以五位數字競價買下此書

版權已售：
Canada : HarperCollins
UK/ANZ: sold at auction (5 bidders) to Little Brown UK
German: btb/Random House (a two-book deal including the author’s previously published memoir, THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT)
French: sold at auction (4 bidders) to Editions Anne Carriere
Italian : Frassinelli/Sperling & Kupfer. (pre-empt)
Australia: Hachette

About the Author/作者介绍： Robert Goolrick is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir The End of the World as We Know It. This is his first novel. He lives in New York City.

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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