The Good Wife : A Novel

from pdebolt

When her husband is convicted of the murder of an elderly, blind woman during a home invasion, Patty is left on her own to raise their son while Tommy serves out his 25-year sentence. Stewart O'Nan is a master at allowing his readers to see the characters' lives fom both the wide perspective and ...

from dickmanikowski

A good read with interesting character development. about a young pregnant woman whose husband spends nearly 30 years in prison while she and her son go on with their lives. Good, but not among O'Nan's best.

from viviennestrauss

Not easy to rate this one. Top notch writing from O'Nan again but I couldn't seem to drum up any sort of empathy for the main characters no matter how hard I tried. Patty's refusal to accept her husband as anything other than a good guy was maddening. Tommy's lack of remorse or any kind of acknow...

from RussellBittner

This is the second work of Stewart O'Nan's I've read. The first (about a decade ago) was The Circus Fire, which I never reviewed, but which I still remember as having been quite competently written.In The Good Wife, we find at least two extraordinary things: (1) the ordinariness of the characters...

from brigitte64

I enjoyed this book, Steward O`Nan has the ability to describe what this woman feels under these circumstances and because of this it wasn`t boring to me. How she chances when she gets older and still holds on to her husband, carefully and patient without losing herself. And still patient and str...