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New York: Carroll & Graf, 1982. Trade Paperback. Good. 5x0x8. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. edge wear, taped corner of front cover; Temporarily abandoned by her overbearing husband amidst the chaos and decay of Los Angeles, Carla Verdi tries to run her home and bring up her son along traditional Italian lines. She finds solace in the friendship of Leo, a Catholic priest. 'Obedience', he teaches her, 'was the prime virtue taught in seminaries.' Thus armed with their private loyalties - he to his church, she to her marriage - they are swept towards temptation. 'A writer of stunning quality, a novelist of irony and compassion who observes her American scene with a refreshingly European detachment.' Daily Telegraph 'A novel of writhing ironies . . . a ruthless, penetrating and desolately funny book.' Guardian 'High-class, serious fun.' Sunday Telegraph
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Weeks of rain had so distorted visibility that the Glen seemed to be under water and the mail van, nosing in, had the look of a bathyscaphe sent to probe its depths.
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- Title The Obedient Wife
- Author Julia O'Faolain
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 235
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date March 17, 1993
- ISBN 9780881843927 / 088184392X
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.48 x 5.46 x 0.72 in (21.54 x 13.87 x 1.83 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85017145
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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