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My Only Wife (2012)

by Jac Jemc(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1936873680 (ISBN13: 9781936873685)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Dzanc Books

review 1: I love how ultimately intangible the characters in this book seemed to me. The narrator spends the entire book remembering his wife, who left him without a trace, but he seems utterly mystified about her. His own identity only seems to take shape juxtaposed against his memories of his wife, and I've already mentioned how ephemeral that turns out to be, so it's almost like a relative description without a referent. Skillfully done and a thrill to read, the overall effect of the book is absolutely haunting.
review 2: This is a highly original book about a very unoriginal subject: marriage. In very clear words a man evokes a beautiful image of his wife who left him after ten years of marriage. The stories about the wife are heartrending, funny and weird at the sam... moree time. She is quirky, intelligent, obsessed about telling the truth and she collects stories other people tell her. Her husband adores everything she says and does but after some time I began to wonder whether her quirkiness wasn't outright craziness. All her idiosyncrasies seemed to exist to disguise some secret. What troubled me in the end was that the stories were a bit far-fetched and that there are no real explanations for her behaviour. I wanted to know why she hated mall jewelry stores and why she felt the need to put her stories and paintings away from her husband. And most of all I wanted to know why she left. less

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