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The pilot's wife : a novel

Shreve, Anita. (Author).

Summary: A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search propels this taut, impassioned novel as it movingly explores the question, How well can we ever really know another person?

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  • ISBN: 0316601950 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 0316789089
  • ISBN: 9780316601955 (pbk)
  • ISBN: 97803167890810
  • Physical Description: 293 p. ; 24 cm.
    print
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books, c1998.
Subject: Husband and wife -- Fiction
Infidelity -- Fiction
Male-Female Romance -- Fiction
Marriage -- Fiction
Military -- Fiction
Parents and Children -- Fiction
Secrets -- Fiction
Aircraft accidents -- Investigation -- Fiction
Widows -- Fiction

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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Headingley Municipal Library F SHR (Text) 36440000126892 Adult Fiction Volume hold Available -

Summary: After a pilot dies in the crash of an airliner, his wife discovers he was a bigamist. A face-to-face follows between the legal wife, Kathryn of Boston by whom he had one child, and the other woman, Muire, who lives in England with their two children.
A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity fueled by rumors that Jack led a secret life, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was, whatever that knowledge might cost. Her search propels this taut, impassioned novel as it movingly explores the question, How well can we ever really know another person?

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