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The Spare Wife: A Novel Paperback - 2009
by Witchel, Alex
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- Paperback
Ponce Morris is a beautiful, rich widow who's knownas "the spare wife" because she's the perfect companionto the wealthy, powerful, New York couples in her elitesocial circle. She throws elegant dinner parties, goesto sports events with the husbands, and shops withthe wives. She's both flawlessly appropriate and coollynonthreatening-everyone knows Ponce doesn't havea romantic bone in her body. Over the years, she hasmanaged other people's lives-and her own-perfectly.Then Babette Seele, an ambitious, aspiring journalist,discovers that Ponce is having an affair with a sociallyprominent, very married man, and decides to breakthe scandal, turning Ponce's carefully calibrated worldupside down. Witchel's sophisticated, witty, sexy satireprovides a fascinating glimpse into the lives and loves ofupper-class New Yorkers, sharply exposing the foibles ofthe fabulous.
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- Title The Spare Wife: A Novel
- Author Witchel, Alex
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 285
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume, U.S.A.
- Date 2009
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0452295300I2N00
- ISBN 9780452295308 / 0452295300
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC