Mrs. Kimble

Jennifer Haigh

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Език:: Английски
Наличност:: 1 бр.

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Издателство:: William Morrow
Град на издаване:: HarperCollins
Година:: 2003 г.
Език:: Английски
Страници:: 400
Корици:: Твърди
Категория:: Чиклит
Ширина (мм):: 165
Височина (мм):: 240
ISBN:: 9780060509392

A Novel In her masterful first novel Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh delivers the compelling story of three women who marry the same man—an enigmatic opportunist named Ken Kimble. He was the choir director at a Southern Bible college. At practice she followed his hands with her eyes. Watching him, she thought of the Piëta: Mary weeping over her son’s crucified body, his naked arms smooth as milk, his chest delicately ribbed like the underside of a flower. She imag-ined his shoulders bare beneath his shirt, his body long and white. One evening he approached her after practice. She met him at a pool party in Florida. His lank dark hair hung to his shoulders; he wore faded jeans and a colorful cotton blouse. His eyes were a startling blue. No man had touched her in a year. He was engaged to someone else. They met by accident in Washington, D.C. Their paths had intersected once before, when she was a teenager. "You’re a beautiful girl," he’d told her, oblivious to the hideous scar on her face. He was old enough to be her father. Kimble is revealed through the eyes of the women he seduces: his first wife, Birdie Bell, who struggles to hold herself together in the months following his desertion; his second wife, Joan Cohen, a lonely heiress shaken by personal tragedy, who sees in Kimble her last chance at happiness; and finally Dinah Whitacre, a beautiful but damaged woman half his age. Woven through-out is the story of Kimble’s son, Charlie, whose life is forever affected by a father he barely remembers. Ken Kimble is a chameleon, a man (continued on back flap) (continued f r o m front flap able to become, at least for a while, all things to all women. To each of the three Mrs. Kimbles, he appears as a hero to whom powerful needs and nameless longings may be attached. Only later do they glimpse the truth about this elusive, unknowable man. A captivating exploration of human love, marriage, and the illusions upon which it is founded, Mrs. Kimble presents a fascinating psychological portrait of a mesmerizing opportunist and the women who believe in him. Beautifully wrought, stunningly original, Jennifer Haigh’s sparkling debut marks the arrival of а remarkable new talent. Jennifer Haigh grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of Dickinson College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was awarded а 2002 James A. Michener Fellowship. Her short stories have been pub-lished in Good Housekeeping, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Idaho Review, Global City Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Jacket design and illustration by Honi Werner Author photograph by Beth Bischoff Available on cassette and CDfrom HarperAudio WILLIAM MORROW

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